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RE: VIM Syntax Colors
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: RE: VIM Syntax Colors
- From: Barry Buchbinder / Isabelle Trocheris <bbuchbin at erols dot com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:25:34 -0400
That did the trick! Thanks.
- Barry Buchbinder
> To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
> Subject: RE: VIM Syntax Colors
> From: Lee <vega@rhubarb.custard.org>
> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 12:21:53 +0100 (BST)
>
> I use Vim on a variety of different machines and on a few
> different platforms. I found the colours in cygwin to be
> a bit too dark. Instead of figuring out how to remap the
> colours in the .vimrc I put this in instead:
>
> set background=dark
> syntax on
>
> Even if you have previously set the syntax to be on, or if
> not, you must do it after the background setting. This will
> force vim to set the colours that are better suited for
> dark backgrounds and not force vim to have a dark
> background. Now the colours look pretty much identical in
> DOS and cygwin.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> ~Lee
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