[TriLUG] Colors in VI (VIM)

[Heath Holcomb]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 07:40:18PM -0400, Tarus Balog wrote:
> 
> Jaimie Livingston said:
> 
> > When I run vi/vim on a Cygwin SSH terminal, say to look at named zone
> > files or a shell script, vi will often use dark colors (dark blue, dark
> > burgundy, dark green) on a black background. Needless to say, this is
> > hard to read for any length of time.
> 
> set background=dark from either a command prompt in vim or in your .vimrc
> file.
> 

There's also the colorscheme command that will let you choose from among
several sets of color definitions. Some are easier to read than others.

Regards,

Heath

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