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Date:      Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:05:14 -0800
From:      Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A question for developers
Message-ID:  <200908202205.14324.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
In-Reply-To: <4A89499A.7040000@ibctech.ca>
References:  <4A858FC0.8030804@gmail.com> <4A865FA5.1070609@gmail.com> <4A89499A.7040000@ibctech.ca>

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On Monday 17 August 2009 04:14:18 Steve Bertrand wrote:
> Manish Jain wrote:
> > You are right. Syntax highlighting only works well with X. On the
> > console, to the best of knowledge, there is no way to change the colours
> > through vim's rc files.
>
> Syntax colour changing does work via .vimrc on the console. The
> constructs are named differently: ctermfg, cterm etc.
>
> The default however uses bright yellow and very light blue for many
> things, which doesn't appear well on my white console.

If you have a set bg=dark line in .vimrc, remove it. or explicitly set 
bg=light.

-- 
Mel



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