Re: [vile] default colors in 9.7y

[Thomas Dickey]

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.

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