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VIM Background

Answer 1

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As vim's own help on set background says, "Setting this option does not change the background color, it tells Vim what the background color looks like. For changing the background color, see |:hi-normal|."

For example

:highlight Normal ctermfg=grey ctermbg=darkblue

will write in white on blue on your color terminal.

Alex Martelli 2009-07-13 02:41:40

Thanks, it works. I tried that option before, but it seems that not all colors work, for instance brown and yellow options don't affect my default console background at all.

negative 2009-07-13 02:52:48

that may be b/c of what kind of terminal vim thinks you have.

rampion 2009-07-13 02:57:20

Yep, setting up your terminal description properly to make vim happy can be a hassle (I remember epic past battles with early Linux, BSD and other Unix flavors -- nowadays with Mac and Ubuntu it just seems to work, more or less, even across ssh among them, and I don't have to do much vi-editing elsewhere these days).

Alex Martelli 2009-07-13 03:17:40

Answer 2

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Using set bg=dark with a white background can produce nearly unreadable text in some syntax highlighting schemes. Instead, you can change the overall colorscheme to something that looks good in your terminal. The colorscheme file should set the background attribute for you appropriately. Also, for more information see:

:h color

Kristo 2009-07-13 02:51:15

that actually why I posted my question here. Even dark colorschemes didn't affect my default background color.

negative 2009-07-13 03:02:18

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