I use Vim at least 100 times a day. And I like my terminals set to light on dark. Over the last 10 years or so you would find me in a dark office with a dark screen and bright text. I’ve since moved to a new office that is a little brighter but I still prefer the darker screens. With vi, the default syntax highlighting settings are too dark to actually read the text…the blue’s are almost unreadable with background glare. So, a quick search revealed an option that fixes all my problems:
set background=dark
Now my text is much brighter and still readable in the brighter office.
More: http://cephyr.cid.net/doc/vim/html/options.html#’background’
Wow, two years later, and your blog entry on set background=dark comes in quite handy. Thanks.
Wow, three years later, and your blog entry comes in handy.
Yup, still useful. Thanks a lot
Thanks , at last I need not bend forward towards screen to read comments. Now I will be missing that excercise.
I love you man!
I don’t know how could I live without that now!
Quite handy indeed, Thanks.
still helpful.
Excellent post! Thanks.
5 years later…