Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background

[Mick]

On Tuesday 22 March 2011 16:30:28 Bill Longman wrote:
> On 03/22/2011 08:43 AM, John Blinka wrote:
> > Hi, All,
> >
> > For quite a few years I've had a low level irritation with the font
> > colors in my x11-terms/terminal.  I like a white background and a
> > black font in my terminals, and that satisfies me perfectly 99.44% of
> > the time.  The colors that appear by default with the ls command are
> > perfect.  But the colors that appear when I do an emerge -ptDuNv, and
> > the colors that appear when interactively merging config files with
> > dispatch-conf (configured to use vimdiff) are sometimes completely
> > unreadable.  In particular, the light yellow font on a white
> > background that portage uses sometimes is almost invisible.  I have
> > tried now and then in the past to develop my own color scheme, but
> > without notable success.  I once tried making the yellow darker in
> > various ways, and that helped, but then the (formerly yellow) text
> > became unreadable if I highlighted it.  I tried dark backgrounds for a
> > while, but I guess I have too many years of reading black print on
> > white pages; dark backgrounds are just "wrong" for me.  And I haven't
> > found any satisfactory answers with web searches.  Is there anybody
> > with a font color scheme they like for use on a white background?
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions,
>
> Will someone please answer John so I can use it too?!!!!
>
> And for that matter, does anyone who uses a dark background AND uses
> vimdiff as their etc-update tool run up against the same issue: vimdiff
> mode and certain syntax highlighting rules combine to make some sections
> of documents completely illegible.
>
> My workarounds are to use vim's "syntax off" in *each* window (PITA)
> which solves the vimdiff problem.
>
> For poor color, I use xterm's Ctrl-Middle menu to go dark background.
>
> And most of root's vim sessions seem to think my background is dark, so
> I'm constantly have to do ":set bg=light".
>
> I use xterm.

Sorry I don't have an answer to the OP, although Neil's suggestion should 
allow him to get rid of yellow fg colour.

@Bill:  Is colordiff any better/different than vimdiff?
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Regards,
Mick