I use dark backgrounds (and therefore a light coloured foreground colour). As a consequence the new MatchParen highlight that is enabled by default in vim 7 is unreadable/annoying. I need to put the following in my ~/.vimrc to fix it:
highlight MatchParen ctermbg=blue guibg=blue Shouldn't the above be done automatically when one does set bg=dark ? thanks, Pádraig.