Re: hlsearch on dark back ground

2007-02-22 Thread Pádraig Brady
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: consider $ cat file.c /* kamaraju * kamaraju * kamaraju */ kamaraju I use konsole with black background and white foreground on Debian Etch, vim 7.0.122 $ cat .vimrc set hls syn enable With this configuration, if I do set background=dark

Re: hlsearch on dark back ground

2007-02-22 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Pádraig Brady wrote: [...] I don't see the issue. hls will just invert the fg bg colours. So if you can it fine unhighlighted, the invert should be OK too? Can you describe the colours you see (or better yet take a screenshot) I use vim on dark terminals exclusively and have tweaked things a

Re: hlsearch on dark back ground

2007-02-22 Thread Pádraig Brady
A.J.Mechelynck wrote: I think you're confusing 'hlsearch' with 'incsearch'. Yes I was sorry. I see the prob now. gray on brown is not easy to read. Pádraig.

hlsearch on dark back ground

2007-02-21 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
consider $ cat file.c /* kamaraju * kamaraju * kamaraju */ kamaraju I use konsole with black background and white foreground on Debian Etch, vim 7.0.122 $ cat .vimrc set hls syn enable With this configuration, if I do set background=dark and search for the word kamaraju, then text

Re: hlsearch on dark back ground

2007-02-21 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: consider $ cat file.c /* kamaraju * kamaraju * kamaraju */ kamaraju I use konsole with black background and white foreground on Debian Etch, vim 7.0.122 $ cat .vimrc set hls syn enable With this configuration, if I do set background=dark and search for the

Re: hlsearch on dark back ground

2007-02-21 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: consider $ cat file.c /* kamaraju * kamaraju * kamaraju */ kamaraju I use konsole with black background and white foreground on Debian Etch, vim 7.0.122 $ cat .vimrc set hls syn enable With this configuration, if I do

Re: hlsearch on dark back ground

2007-02-21 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: consider $ cat file.c /* kamaraju * kamaraju * kamaraju */ kamaraju I use konsole with black background and white foreground on Debian Etch, vim 7.0.122 $ cat .vimrc set hls syn enable With this

Re: hlsearch on dark back ground

2007-02-21 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Most console terminals have only 8 background colours, 16 foreground colours. Some have 16 of both. Non-bright yellow (including every background yellow) is usually shown as brown. Whether you can or cannot change the terminal's colour palette is outside the realm of

Re: hlsearch on dark back ground

2007-02-21 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Most console terminals have only 8 background colours, 16 foreground colours. Some have 16 of both. Non-bright yellow (including every background yellow) is usually shown as brown. Whether you can or cannot change the terminal's colour palette

[Fwd: Re: hlsearch on dark back ground]

2007-02-21 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
I got this privately by mistake. Konstantin: next time, please use Reply to All (or Reply to List if your mailer has it), unless you're straying off-topic. Best regards, Tony. Original Message Subject: Re: hlsearch on dark back ground Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:19:08 +0100

Re: [Fwd: Re: hlsearch on dark back ground]

2007-02-21 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Hey Kamaraju, To test your terminal's colouring abilities, try this little perl script by Todd Larason (http://www.cs.rice.edu/~scrosby/software/tf256color/src/256colors2.pl). Thanks for the script. I don't know which terminal emulator you use, but if it's xterm or konsole, it

Re: hlsearch on dark back ground

2007-02-21 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 05:25:41PM EST, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Most console terminals have only 8 background colours, 16 foreground colours. Some have 16 of both. Non-bright yellow (including every background yellow) is usually shown as brown. Whether you