On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 06:37:04PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: | On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 05:47:45PM -0500, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: | > Dear debianers | > | > I am using the vim-gtk plus vim-rt packages. Although I was able to | > change the font using by gvim, I don't | > know how change the background and foreground colors. I think that it is a | > matter of put | > something in /etc/gvimrc, like I done for the fonts. I looked in the man | > pages and on-line help, but I didn't | > find anything. Any help will be very appreciated. | > Regards, | | You may want something like: | | " set bgcolor to light, so colors are readable | set background=light | | The alternative is "dark".
This only sets the tint/shade (I don't know the proper "art" term). If you use a black terminal and run vim, you want "set bg=dark" to make the colors lighter. If you use "set bg=light" the colors will be so dark (against the black) that it will be almost impossible to use. Vice versa for a light background (gvim's default of white). The solution is to change the colors used by the syntax highlighting for "Normal" text. In my .gvimrc I use: highlight Normal guibg=black guifg=grey90 to get a black background and text that is grey90 (not quite a glaring white). I also use "set bg=dark" to make the highlighting readable. See ":help highlight" for more info on how this actually works (or just ask ;-)). Also, there is a cl option "--rv" or "--reverse-video" to reverse the colors from their normal. gvim will actually check to make sure that it is light-on-dark rather than just blindly switching fg & bg. HTH, -D
