Hi, On 4/11/06, Gary Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-04-11, James Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One difference to Vim 6.4 (from the Debian Etch) I found is the > > behavior with visual selections. When I selected syntax highlighted > > text with Vim 6.4 the selected text was black/white. With Vim 7.0(c|d) > > (compiled by myself) this has changed to be also colorful. That way > > it's very hard/impossible for me to read. Screenshots are at > > http://dirowsd.tripod.com/vim/vim-highlighting.html > > > > Is there any way to change this? > > I also found visually-selected text to be impossible to read > with vim-7.0b. I had also been using vim-6.4. I was about to > submit a bug report when I realized that ever since I started using > vim with a 16-color xterm, with white text on a black background, I > had left 'background' set to "light". At this point, fixing that > won't be easy, so I worked around it for now by adding this to my > ~/.vimrc: > > if v:version >= 700 > highlight clear Visual > highlight Visual term=reverse cterm=reverse gui=reverse guifg=Grey > guibg=fg > endif
That works much better, thank you! "highlight Visual ctermfg=black ctermbg=white" is even nearer to what I want selected text to be. > I just copied the vim-6.4 highlight values by running vim-6.4, > executing ":hi", and copying the Visual row into my ~/.vimrc, > followed by a little editing. Thanks for this valuable tip, too! James
