This bug was filed fairly recently: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/871907
I tend to think that its a bit confusing why we default to a light background setting in vim, when our default terminals all are dark. I have not checked on any of the other flavors of Ubuntu, but at least on our main desktop configuration, all terminals have a dark background. This seems like a no-brainer, so I was thinking of uploading a fix before FeatureFreeze, but I wanted to open up the discussion a bit wider in case there are people who feel that this might be too radical of a change. The change would be simple.. vim defaults to a light background, so in the default vimrc for precise, we'd change it to have background=dark. I have CC'd ubuntu-server, because I'm certain there are a lot of users of non-Ubuntu desktop platforms who ssh into Ubuntu servers, and would possibly be affected by this, whether negatively or positively. -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
