Re: colorscheme in vi

2022-12-24 Thread Max Nikulin
On 24/12/2022 03:49, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: if I put in .vimrc "colorscheme white" or any unknown color (qwert for example) I get a message "cannot find colorscheme xxx", but I haveĀ  black on white characters with vim. I am curious what is the output of :colorscheme (without argument) when you

Re: colorscheme in vi

2022-12-23 Thread Lee
On 12/23/22, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Curt wrote: >> You'd think it would be more a question of the terminal. > > I myself am living happily with > :syntax off > > This reduces the flippy-colorful appearance of vim to what i have chosen > as -bg and -fg of my xterms. I used to agree with

Re: colorscheme in vi

2022-12-23 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Fri, 23 Dec 2022, Curt wrote: On 2022-12-23, Nate Bargmann wrote: Because there is no colorscheme named "white" in Debian's vim. The colorschemes are in /usr/share/vim/vim82/colors The problem as I see it is that he wants reverse colors in 'vi' but edited '.vimrc'. Historically those a

Re: colorscheme in vi

2022-12-23 Thread Curt
On 2022-12-23, Nate Bargmann wrote: > >> > >> > The problem as I see it is that he wants reverse colors in 'vi' but >> > edited '.vimrc'. Historically those are two different programs but the >> > Debian alternatives eventually points 'vi' to 'vim.basic'. I would >> > presume that a setting that

Re: colorscheme in vi

2022-12-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2022 23 Dec 13:03 -0600, Curt wrote: > On 2022-12-23, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > >> Because there is no colorscheme named "white" in Debian's > >> vim. The colorschemes are in /usr/share/vim/vim82/colors > > > > The problem as I see it is that he wants reverse colors in 'vi' but > > edited '.

Re: colorscheme in vi

2022-12-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Curt wrote: > You'd think it would be more a question of the terminal. I myself am living happily with :syntax off This reduces the flippy-colorful appearance of vim to what i have chosen as -bg and -fg of my xterms. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: colorscheme in vi

2022-12-23 Thread Curt
On 2022-12-23, Nate Bargmann wrote: > >> Because there is no colorscheme named "white" in Debian's >> vim. The colorschemes are in /usr/share/vim/vim82/colors > > The problem as I see it is that he wants reverse colors in 'vi' but > edited '.vimrc'. Historically those are two different programs b

Re: colorscheme in vi

2022-12-23 Thread Curt
On 2022-12-23, David wrote: >> >> You could try using a different colorscheme. Apparently, there's no >> way to get vim to tell you their names, > > To see the available colorschemes, do this in vim: >:colorscheme > > I have: blue, darkblue, default, delek, desert, elflord, evening, industry, ko

Re: colorscheme in vi

2022-12-23 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Fri, 23 Dec 2022, Max Nikulin wrote: On 23/12/2022 18:36, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: I wanted to open vi with a white background and a black fg to do that, Do you mean graphical gvim window or vim running in a terminal? In the latter case which one and should vim follow terminal background? I

Re: colorscheme in vi

2022-12-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2022 23 Dec 06:54 -0600, David wrote: > On Fri, 23 Dec 2022 at 23:31, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 12:36:56PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > > I wanted to open vi with a white background and a black fg > > > to do that, I put in my .vimrc, as recommended, a line > >

Re: colorscheme in vi

2022-12-23 Thread Max Nikulin
On 23/12/2022 18:36, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: I wanted to open vi with a white background and a black fg to do that, Do you mean graphical gvim window or vim running in a terminal? In the latter case which one and should vim follow terminal background? Is tmux or screen involved? Besides colo

Re: colorscheme in vi

2022-12-23 Thread David
On Fri, 23 Dec 2022 at 23:31, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 12:36:56PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > I wanted to open vi with a white background and a black fg > > to do that, I put in my .vimrc, as recommended, a line > > colorscheme white "as recommended" by whom? Bec

Re: colorscheme in vi

2022-12-23 Thread tomas
On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 07:31:14AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 12:36:56PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > I wanted to open vi with a white background and a black fg > > to do that, I put in my .vimrc, as recommended, a line > > colorscheme white > > that worked, exce

Re: colorscheme in vi

2022-12-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 12:36:56PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > I wanted to open vi with a white background and a black fg > to do that, I put in my .vimrc, as recommended, a line > colorscheme white > that worked, except that each time I open vim, I get the message: >cannot find color s