Re: [vile] default colors in 9.7y

[Chris G]

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.

-- 
Chris Green