[gentoo-user] Re: Need advice on changing terminal color scheme

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-09-15, Alan <alan@×××××.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 09:44:47AM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
>> I use my gnome-terminal a lot, and I have the background set to #000000
>> with the foreground set to #FFFFFF .  This works pretty well for me,
>> except that the comments in config files and such show up in a dark blue
>> that's very difficult to read against the black background.  I'd like to
>> change it to a lighter color on the dark background, but I don't even
>> know what file that particular config line "comment color=" would be in,
>> but I use vim as my text editor.  Maybe in a ~/.vim*   file, but which
>> one?
>
> If you're talking about the syntax highlighting in vim, you'll probably
> want to do:
>
> set bg=dark
>
> Which will set the sytax coloring to *much* nicer colors for working on
> black.

I sure with there was a "bg" setting for emerge et al.  Bright
green and yellow on white are awfully hard to read. 

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