On 03/22/2011 08:43 AM, John Blinka wrote: > Hi, All, > > For quite a few years I've had a low level irritation with the font > colors in my x11-terms/terminal. I like a white background and a > black font in my terminals, and that satisfies me perfectly 99.44% of > the time. The colors that appear by default with the ls command are > perfect. But the colors that appear when I do an emerge -ptDuNv, and > the colors that appear when interactively merging config files with > dispatch-conf (configured to use vimdiff) are sometimes completely > unreadable. In particular, the light yellow font on a white > background that portage uses sometimes is almost invisible. I have > tried now and then in the past to develop my own color scheme, but > without notable success. I once tried making the yellow darker in > various ways, and that helped, but then the (formerly yellow) text > became unreadable if I highlighted it. I tried dark backgrounds for a > while, but I guess I have too many years of reading black print on > white pages; dark backgrounds are just "wrong" for me. And I haven't > found any satisfactory answers with web searches. Is there anybody > with a font color scheme they like for use on a white background? > > Thanks for any suggestions,
Will someone please answer John so I can use it too?!!!! And for that matter, does anyone who uses a dark background AND uses vimdiff as their etc-update tool run up against the same issue: vimdiff mode and certain syntax highlighting rules combine to make some sections of documents completely illegible. My workarounds are to use vim's "syntax off" in *each* window (PITA) which solves the vimdiff problem. For poor color, I use xterm's Ctrl-Middle menu to go dark background. And most of root's vim sessions seem to think my background is dark, so I'm constantly have to do ":set bg=light". I use xterm.
