Ben K. wrote:
Vimmers,
I use vimdiff in gnome-terminal and sometimes in GUI, but the default
color scheme (I found somehow it's not the same as the
"colors/default.vim") sometimes use the same color for both foreground
and background. Most of the color schemes in the colors directory do the
same (same or indiscernible fg and bg colors)
Since $VIMRUNTIME/colors/default.vim includes no explicit highlights, but only
resets everything to the defaults, it should be the same as no colorscheme at
all... unless
hi clear Normal
set bg&
hi clear
doesn't "guess" correctly whether your background is "light" or "dark". In
that case, here's how to reset the defaults, assuming you're running Vim in a
dark-background color-xterm:
hi clear Normal
set bg=dark
hi clear
" the rest of default.vim shouldn't change
Don't modify $VIMRUNTIME/colors/default.vim "in place", because any upgrade
may (and, on Unix, probably will) overwrite it without warning. Place your own
colourscheme (the modified version) in ~/.vim/colors/ (on Unix) or
~/vimfiles/colors/ (on Windows); I recommend that you also give it another
name, but ending in .vim
I spent some time and found corresponding set the following for the c
files I have at hand, so I add these lines in my .vimrc, but I guess
I'll have to do the same for php and other languages I use.
highlight cConstant ctermfg=white guifg=white
highlight cString ctermfg=white guifg=white
highlight cNumber ctermfg=white guifg=white
I expect that "guifg=white" will set it to white-on-white in most cases when
using the GUI
Do these have something in common? I had to try a few times to find what
they are...
P.S.)
Also, :help colorscheme says
:colo[rscheme] {name} Load color scheme {name}. This searches
'runtimepath'
for the file "colors/{name}.vim. The first one
that
is found is loaded.
but somehow, none of my installations do that, if the first means
alphabetically the first. Probably it'll be understandable if I look at
the code, but just wanted to note here - in case someone has a ready
answer.
Happy vimming,
Ben K.
Developer
http://benix.tamu.edu
It's not alphabetically the first, it's the first in 'runtimepath', as follows:
Let's say you use the command
:colorscheme foobar
on Unix, with 'runtimepath' at its default setting. This is what happens:
If "~/.vim/colors/foobar.vim" is found, use that; otherwise
if "$VIM/vimfiles/colors/foobar.vim" is found, use that; otherwise
if "$VIMRUNTIME/colors/foobar.vim" is found, use that; otherwise
if "$VIM/vimfiles/after/colors/foobar.vim" is found, use that; otherwise
if "~/.vim/colors/foobar.vim" is found, use that; otherwise
don't change anything, and if 'verbose' is nonzero give a message.
Best regards,
Tony.
