On 2006-04-21, Meino Christian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> one question remains -- I thought it has something to do with the
> (previously) limited number of colors of my TERM settings...but...
>
> "desert" is described as "dark color scheme".
>
> When I start vim (NOT gvim -- I am more commandline related ;) on
> a mrxvt (terminal a la xterm), which has a black background set per
> default and then load "desert" either via vimrc or by hand everthing
> looks nice.
>
> But when I do the same on a "not inverted" mrxvt (black characters on
> white background - the default) the "desert" colors came out rather
> unreadable (some keywords are highlighted bright yellow on white
> background.... :/ ) -- the background does not change to black.
>
> In the head of the desert.vim file I found:
> set background=dark
>
> Since desert.vim not only defines color settings for "gui*" but also
> for "cterm*" I think it should work on both.
>
> Since desert.vim is rated on vim.org very high, I think the problem is on
> my side anywhere ... ;O)
>
> I set TERM to xterm-256color now and checked with infocmp, that there
> are really 256 colors.
>
> What did I wrong so badly here ?
I don't know very much about color schemes, so I don't know if I can
be of much further help. I use vim in a 16-color xterm almost
exclusively, with white text on a black background.
That being said, I think the problem is that desert.vim assumes that
the color terminal is already set for light text on a dark
background. Notice that Normal is defined for the GUI but not for
the color terminal.
Referring to
:help 'bg'
:help hi-normal-cterm
I think it may be sufficient to put this in your ~/.vimrc before you
set the color scheme to desert:
hi Normal ctermfg=White ctermbg=grey20
Regards,
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
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| Spokane, Washington, USA
