you can also add: set background=dark (or light) to your .vimrc rather than resetting a whole bunch of colors this setting will make everything readable on a dark background and if you use gvim you can put background=light into your .gvimrc and have it very readable on a light background.
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 03:12:19PM -0500, Scott Chilcote wrote: > Nick Goldwater wrote: > >Has anyone else noticed that by default VIM under SuSE does not display > >colors? > > > >Is there an easy way to enable this? > > > >Any help is much appreciated. > > > >Nick > > In the spirit of leaving no help unstated, here's what you add to .vimrc > if you're not thrilled about any of the colors... Which are listed in > /etc/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt: > > highlight Comment ctermfg=cyan guifg=cyan > highlight Constant ctermfg=DarkRed guifg=Magenta > highlight Special ctermfg=DarkMagenta guifg=SlateBlue > highlight Identifier ctermfg=DarkCyan guifg=DarkCyan > highlight Statement ctermfg=Brown gui=bold guifg=Brown > highlight PreProc ctermfg=DarkMagenta guifg=Purple > highlight Type ctermfg=DarkGreen guifg=SeaGreen gui=bold > highlight Ignore guifg=bg > > I changed the comment color in this list to be a lighter shade of blue. > The default one just about disappears into a dark background. > > Enjoy... > > -- > Scott C. > > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > -- http://stick.miscellaneous.net Chris MacLeod _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
