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On Monday 17 August 2009 04:14:18 Steve Bertrand wrote:
> Manish Jain wrote:
> > You are right. Syntax highlighting only works well with X. On the
> > console, to the best of knowledge, there is no way to change the colours
> > through vim's rc files.
>
> Syntax colour changing does work via .vimrc on the console. The
> constructs are named differently: ctermfg, cterm etc.
>
> The default however uses bright yellow and very light blue for many
> things, which doesn't appear well on my white console.

If you have a set bg=dark line in .vimrc, remove it. or explicitly set 
bg=light.

-- 
Mel