On Tuesday 22 March 2011 16:30:28 Bill Longman wrote: > On 03/22/2011 08:43 AM, John Blinka wrote: > > Hi, All, > > > > For quite a few years I've had a low level irritation with the font > > colors in my x11-terms/terminal. I like a white background and a > > black font in my terminals, and that satisfies me perfectly 99.44% of > > the time. The colors that appear by default with the ls command are > > perfect. But the colors that appear when I do an emerge -ptDuNv, and > > the colors that appear when interactively merging config files with > > dispatch-conf (configured to use vimdiff) are sometimes completely > > unreadable. In particular, the light yellow font on a white > > background that portage uses sometimes is almost invisible. I have > > tried now and then in the past to develop my own color scheme, but > > without notable success. I once tried making the yellow darker in > > various ways, and that helped, but then the (formerly yellow) text > > became unreadable if I highlighted it. I tried dark backgrounds for a > > while, but I guess I have too many years of reading black print on > > white pages; dark backgrounds are just "wrong" for me. And I haven't > > found any satisfactory answers with web searches. Is there anybody > > with a font color scheme they like for use on a white background? > > > > Thanks for any suggestions, > > Will someone please answer John so I can use it too?!!!! > > And for that matter, does anyone who uses a dark background AND uses > vimdiff as their etc-update tool run up against the same issue: vimdiff > mode and certain syntax highlighting rules combine to make some sections > of documents completely illegible. > > My workarounds are to use vim's "syntax off" in *each* window (PITA) > which solves the vimdiff problem. > > For poor color, I use xterm's Ctrl-Middle menu to go dark background. > > And most of root's vim sessions seem to think my background is dark, so > I'm constantly have to do ":set bg=light". > > I use xterm.
Sorry I don't have an answer to the OP, although Neil's suggestion should allow him to get rid of yellow fg colour. @Bill: Is colordiff any better/different than vimdiff? -- Regards, Mick
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