On 16.04.25 16:48, Steven H. wrote: > P.S. In case it is not clear (as I didn't say that explicitly), my
> question is about VIM. It was eminently evident. My reply included "vi/vim, mutt, etc.", intending to make the point that setting bg/fg colours in the terminal provides consistency across apps. (I'm too lazy to want to find ways to do it individually in each.) On 16.04.25 16:46, Steven H. wrote: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 09:10:05 +0000 dvalin via vim_use wrote: > > > There's 754 colours in my /etc/X11/rgb.txt, but 782 in > > /usr/share/vim/vim81/rgb.txt , maybe more in a more current version. > > Here: > find /usr/share/vim/ -name 'rgb.txt' > shows me nothing. > > > And I guess you could add your own, if needed. > > But I change the cursor colour in vim, using its limited palette, to > > differentiate insert vs normal mode at the cursor, not just the status line. Here, $ locate rgb.txt also shows: /etc/X11/rgb.txt /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt They're the system version - all that's needed. I see there: 222 222 222 gray87 222 222 222 grey87 so: xterm -bg grey87 should do the trick, without further ado. > > "MODE-INDICATING TRICOLOUR CURSOR: > > "Appearance: (Insert_Mode = Red, Replace Mode = Purple, Normal_Mode = Green) > > > > if &term =~ "xterm" > > let &t_SI = "\<Esc>]12;red\x7" > > let &t_SR = "\<Esc>]12;purple\x7" > > let &t_EI = "\<Esc>]12;green\x7" > > endif > > where do I type this? And how does it affect the color of tab indents? > > I hope you can clarify. I am not an expert. > FWIW, I am using desert colorscheme. It goes into your ~/.vimrc and has no observable effect on tabs. To distinguish tabs from spaces, e.g. in makefiles, I place the modeline: # vim:noexpandtab list in the file. The desired representation for tabs and trailing whitespace is set by: set listchars=tab:>-,trail:- also in ~/.vimrc Vim's "help listchars" provides more options there than any one person could find a use for, I think. Hope that helps set the required appearance. If you use vim for everything, then it's important to have restful colours, as you're setting up. Apropos "desert" I notice in rgb.txt : 244 164 96 sandy brown 244 164 96 SandyBrown The closest to desert that I've used is a less glaring background for my preferred pdf viewer: /usr/bin/xpdf -geometry 1200x900+5+0 -z width -papercolor wheat3 $fn & (I've put that in a shell function which first converts spaces in the filename to '_', as xpdf borks on that. But that's not directly relevant here.) Erik -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/96c42a8d-0460-4186-a1f8-ff88ea850956%40localhost.
