Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 18:53:05 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: somewhat OT ... in parts Message-ID: <20130103025305.GA24960@ethic.thought.org>
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guys,
it was bill joy and friends who clued me in on how-to use the
vi that he was writing in the late 70's. I've been stuck on that
editor--or VIIM in recent years. Bill's original editor became
COPYRIGHT of UNIX {TM}, and of course you just didnt mess with
"the telephone company." I was glad when keith bostic wrote an
exact clone of bill joy's editor. I'm still getting used to vim.
one reason ive stuck with vim-as-vi was of the colors that vim
defaults to. I'v fought the dark/crap/puke brown /<search>
color that seems to be the default on my linux desktop. it's hard
to see my block cursor when I search for words. und`zo, today I
spend a couple hours tracking down this color feature in vim. was
pleased to find that there was a blue-tone color set. my joints
are complaining so I'll ask if any of you can give me the right
terms to google for. I'd like to find a lighter blue or play
around with the colors. {am assuming that vim is the same across
the linux and berkeley distributions.}
thanks in advance for a few url's.
gary
PS: OH; the offtopic thing. I'm done, or =very= close with my
voice by computer program. It's in C with gtk and AFAICT works
only on linux. ive got a few months of cleaning up before
release 0.51 will be finished. in the FBSD world, this would
fit into the accessibility directory. now, the speech-impaired
who can type will be able to communicate with anyone. VBC requires
espeak and gvim.
--
Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix
Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community.
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