From: Gary Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: TERM setting under Gentoo Linux Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:39:16 -0700
> 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 > > -- > Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wireless Division > | Spokane, Washington, USA > Hi Gary, THANKS ! :O) That's it !!! It reveals some other wholes in the definition of desert.vim, but I will see... Thanks a lot again! Have a nice weekend! mcc
