From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 23 5:51:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A298E37B401 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 05:51:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a129.otenet.gr [212.205.215.129]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f9NCpcO11236; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 15:51:38 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9NCpkS21612; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 15:51:46 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 15:51:45 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: John Smith Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: colors really dark Message-ID: <20011023155145.G20345@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 X-URL: http://labs.gr/~charon/ 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 On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 11:03:28PM -0700, John Smith wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply.. no, I haven't changed any of the monitor > settings, and both use the same XF86Config. 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? 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. For vim on the console, try this: :syntax off :set bakground=dark :syntax on This way colours for highlighting are chosen from a `brighter' range. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message