> To see colors with or without Shift-V you need at least ":syntax on" in your
> vimrc. (":filetype plugin on", or even ":filetype plugin indent on", is also
> useful.) If you source the vimrc_example.vim it does it all for you.
>
> With those set, I cannot reproduce your problem: in console mode the Visual
> highlight uses reverse-video, and the background takes up the colours
> normally used by the text. In GUI mode, the Visual highlight has a grey
> background (LightGrey, it is called) and the foreground text colours are
> still visible.
>
> I tested it by bringing up the help (using F1) and then hitting Shift-v for
> linewise Visual: the name of the file at left and the Vim version in the
> middle are still different colours than the rest, with or without the Visual
> highlight.
>
> The default Visual highlight is
> :hi Visual term=reverse cterm=reverse guibg=LightGrey
> and it's good enough as it is.
>
> Of course if you have set a color scheme it may change the Visual highlight
> to something which won't let you see the underlying text colours. You can
> see the current colour and where it was set, by using
>
> :verbose hi Visual
>
> (except than on very old Vim versions, :verbose won't tell you were a
> highlight was set).
>
> Which version are you using? (I'm on Linux, currently testing the first
> advance versions of Vim 7.3a with GTK2 GUI, but in 7.2.xxx I saw the same
> thing.)
>
syntax on & hi Visual term=reverse cterm=reverse guibg=Grey solves the
issue. I am using gvim 7.2.
Thanks for the help, Ajay.
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