On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 02:57:37PM +0200, Georg Dahn wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Since I dislike the highlights of 'Constant' and 'Title', which is
> Magenta as default, I have defined in my gvimrc:
>
> hi Constant guifg=Maroon
> hi Title guifg=Maroon
>
> I have no 'colo ...' or 'set background=...'. When gVim is open, the
> Title is Maroon, but the Constant still is Magenta. Since in
> gvimrc_example.vim some highlights are defined, too, I assume that this
> should work. If I do 'set background=light' before defining above
> highlights everything works well. In the example file the background is
> not being set.
What does
:verbose hi Constant guifg=Maroon
show?
> Which could be related: I have a color scheme which decides if it takes
> a dark or light scheme depending on the value of 'background'. In gVim
> 6.4 I get the light scheme and in gVim 7.0 I get the dark one.
In addition to the above sort of debugging, you can add a line like
let g:foo = "2006 April 16 background=" . &background
to your color scheme file. The date stamp is to avoid confusion the
*next* time you add debugging comments.
HTH --Benji Fisher
