On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 01:58:58PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Chris G wrote:
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:55:55PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
I just updated the vile/xvile ports under FreeBSD to 9.7y.
I must say that the new default colors really suck if you're not
using a black background - apparently the default for uxvile.
I generally use cornsilk2 and most of the highlighting is unreadable
with a light background :(
The default colours never worked too well on a light background, are
they even worse now?
I think maybe there should be *two* sets of defaults because there
will always be those who want to work in 'black' windows and those who
want to work in 'white' ones. It's a bit like vi/emacs wars! :-)
For that sort of thing, there's the color-schemes. But color-schemes
basically assume that the default text/background colors are distinct.
I'm lost! :-)
I was trying to say that *no* colour scheme is going to work well on
both a dark background and a light background. My suggestion was that
maybe two color-schemes should be available with the standard [x]vile
build, one for dark/black background and the other for light/white
background. You could choose with configure maybe.
OK, once up and running one can fine tune the color-scheme but it's
useful to have somewhere to start from.