From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 3 06:27:41 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 14645D72 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 06:27:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5B0B7D4 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 06:27:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-31-80.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.31.80]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D74C3CC06; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 07:27:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id r036Rf22002325; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 07:27:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 07:27:41 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Gary Kline Subject: Re: somewhat OT ... in parts Message-Id: <20130103072741.c02a1150.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20130103025305.GA24960@ethic.thought.org> References: <20130103025305.GA24960@ethic.thought.org> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 06:27:41 -0000 On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 18:53:05 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > 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.} In case you're using gvim (a GUI "enclosing" for vim) you can do the following: Load some text or source code, :syntax on, then in the menu: Edit -> Color Scheme, and pin the resulting menu next to the editor window; click the different schemes to check if one of the predefined 17 schemes looks usable to you; when done, unpin the menu. This approach is just for testing and "looking around" in the first place, not for actual permanent use. :-) > 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. There are both gvim and /usr/ports/audio/espeak in ports, and Gtk is also in there. What would cause this software to refuse working on FreeBSD? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...