On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 19:21, Ben Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I've redircted the output of ':verbose hi' along with the outputs of >>> 'set' for both user and root earlier, and posted them in this thread, >>> and they do differ. >> >> Yes; I glanced at that earlier. I didn't realise :verbose had been >> included that time. > > I actually only saw the diff Tony included in his post. Perhaps your > original diffs didn't make it to the list. > > An interesting option is this: > > :verbose set background?
as user: :verbose set background? dark :set background=light Yes, that was it! I've put 'set background=light' into the '.vimrc' and everything looks nice now. > > ? It definitely affects boldness for some syntax colour stuff and is a > likely candidate for affecting other colours too. Why Vim would > detect/guess it differently when root and not, I don't know, but it > could definitely be playing a part. Well, this riddle remains unsolved. > > Ben. You nailed it down, Ben. Many thanks to you all!!! :) mih ps. I've attached the output files again, if someone cares... and a little picture. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
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