-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Quoth Derek Davis: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 07:11:14AM -0700, Stuart Jansen said: > > On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 00:08, Gary Thornock wrote: > > > My main complaint with the color coded editing is that the > > > default colors are unreadable (indeed, often nearly invisible) > > > against the black background in my terminal window. I know, I > > > know, I should probably download a new color scheme. Trouble > > > is, every time I've done that, it's given me fits about syntax > > > errors and incompatibilities in the color scheme file. Setting > > > "syntax off" lets me have nice green-on-black text with no > > > hassle :) > > > > It should be more readable if you set bg=dark > > If you like it, add it to your .vimrc > > Another option is to download Hans' desert color scheme. I know > you've had problems with other color schemes, but these are the > best coding colors I've ever used. Very easy to see everything. > Though, you have to use it in gvim.
That would be great, except that I often use vi remotely and am not able to use gvim :) (Actually, one of the color schemes that I've tried unsuccessfully before was Hans' black-and-white scheme. It looked nice, but the error messages I kept getting were too much bother.) I may try "set bg=dark" and see what happens, though. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 iQA/AwUBPnnpd3Nq1Kdl3W66EQJZzgCbBd/Yo6p5FIpi89h5zaDivda+3mcAnRlS 188+am+WS31tbUprgPwxYJuJ =G1v3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
