From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 23 0: 9:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f313.law10.hotmail.com [64.4.14.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C43FF37B403 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 00:09:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 00:09:43 -0700 Received: from 24.76.165.62 by lw10fd.law10.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 07:09:43 GMT X-Originating-IP: [24.76.165.62] From: "John Smith" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: colors really dark Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 00:09:43 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Oct 2001 07:09:43.0629 (UTC) FILETIME=[B0B78FD0:01C15B91] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: parv >To: John Smith >CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: colors really dark >Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 02:39:48 -0400 > >in message , >wrote John Smith thusly... > > >... > > I was thinking about 8-bit > > color for a second, but does a default install automatically pick this >for > > you, and is there any way of changing it? > >see XFree86 manual(s) and/or XF86Config somewhere in /etc. > Hmmm, are you talking about color depth in xterm or what I'm using in the X server? In that latter case, I'm using 16bpp. I'm assuming this is what you meant, I guess I got confused with the other guy said earlier. > > > I've used Linux for a few years, > > and I know how vim looks between every Linux system by default with >syntax > > highlighting on, it's just it very dark in FreeBSD's console. I >installed > > gnuls and found it to be a much better alternative to FreeBSD's ls, >since it > > does sorting by extension, and the colors are much brighter, and easier >to > > see. > >well, as far as ls(1) & gnuls(1) are concerned, they just use different >"fonts" & colors. for ls, all the colored listing are in normal font, >i.e. not bold. whereas, gnuls uses bold fonts, which happens to be >in "bright"er version of the same color than normal font. > >for directories, both ls & gnuls use blue, which is very unreadable >on dark background. however, gnuls also uses bolder font, which helps >a little. > >and for executable files and symlinks, gnuls uses bold font and >bright(green,cyan), while ls uses red and magenta, respectively. color >choices for ls, in this case, are not easily readable on dark >background, understandably. > >you may be able to change to color definitions. to get some idea, see >vidcontrol(1) and xterm(1) in addition. > > - parv > Yeah, I played around alot with vidcontrol before, but that still doesn't help with vim, and I'm happy with gnuls' choice of colors, and I know how to change them to suit my taste. So I guess this is something I'm going to have to do with vim's config itself then? _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message