On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Gary Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012-10-14, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> I'm running the latest Ubuntu stuff, but this problem has been around >> for a while. >> I like to use vim (not gvim) in my linux x-terminal. All is well >> there. However, when I use vimdiff, none of the default colorschemes >> is useable because much of the text is unreadable because of low >> contrast. They are all quite dark, and dark anything on dark anything >> is a challenge. >> >> I'd be content to turn it off entirely if I knew how. ":syntax off" >> is all that comes to mind, and it does not seem to do anything at all. >> >> Any ideas? > > What I do in those situations is > > :windo set syn=OFF >
I tried it, and it does not seem to do anything at all. The command is accepted, unlike variations that provoke an error message, but no colors change. Also ":windo set" shows syntax=OFF Perhaps the colors that are bothering me are vimdiff artifacts missing in regular vim??? -- Kevin O'Gorman programmer, n. an organism that transmutes caffeine into software. -- 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
