atstake atstake wrote:
I have a white background and I set background color as "dark" which
is not really eye-candy. I do lots of sh/awk/sed/perl/C/make coding
and also use vim for mutt and also writing plain text documents, edit
conf/rc files etc. Which color would be the best for white background
for code syntax highlighting and also for mutt? I really don't care
about color for plain-text as long as it's black on white background.
Vim version: 7.0.42 on OpenBSD 4.0.
Thanks.
With a white background in Console Vim, the 'background' option should be set
to "light" in order to tell Vim that the background is light. Console Vim
cannot always guess that. (In gvim, black text on white background is the
default.)
You may test the various colourschemes distributed with Vim, or available in
the Scripts section at vim-online, by using
:colourscheme <name>
where <name> is the colourscheme name: for instance,
:colourscheme desert
will invoke $VIMRUNTIME/colors/desert.vim; if you install, let's say, some
custom scheme as ~/.vim/colors/foobar.vim (on Unix) or
$HOME/vimfiles/colors/foobar.vim (on Windows), you should use ":colorscheme
foobar" in order to load it.
Once you find a colorscheme which pleases you (or if you write your own), you
can place the appropriate line in your vimrc.
Best regards,
Tony.
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