Vim Aficionados, I run console vim. My normal colorscheme, as set in the .vimrc, is `Default' with backround set to dark. This has always had the consequence that the line at the bottom of the screen that says `--INSERT--' whenever I'm in that mode is displayed in magenta.
Last night, this changed to display in white. I did not mess with the terminal emulator's colors. I *did* begin playing around with commands that change the syntax coloring while I'm in the middle of a document, e.g., :hi LineNr ctermfg=green But my understanding was that such "live" commands are temporary; when I exited vim, they are lost, and a restart of vim would bring the usual colors I named in the .vimrc. So I'm wondering (a) what happened to my purple mode notice?, and (b) did whatever happened to it happen because of my piecemeal coloring commands? Many thanks, GMN
