From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 3 02:59:43 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E92EB74B for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 02:59:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from smtpauth22.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (smtpauth22.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [64.202.165.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B62B5FD9 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 02:59:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 4672 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2013 02:53:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (209.180.213.209) by smtpauth22.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.44) with ESMTP; 03 Jan 2013 02:53:03 -0000 Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 18:53:05 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: somewhat OT ... in parts Message-ID: <20130103025305.GA24960@ethic.thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:59:44 -0000 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 / 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.