On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:17:25AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > VIM has a terriffic feature for switching to a highlighting scheme > that is fit for a dark background: ":set background=dark". Without > having to define each and every colour, is there not such a feature > for bash? I've been googling, but not finding, such a thing for some > time.
I would (and do) set this up in the terminal emulator itself. With the Gnome terminal (and presumably Konsole too) you can have colour profiles (there are probably a number of profiles set up already). With xterm and rxvt derivatives, you can set colours in your .Xresources files. > In the absence of such a feature, I would love to see how some of the > wiser amoung the list members have their colours set. I have been > playing around with it for a while, I've never come to anything really > satisfactory on the Dell laptop with it's terrible LCD screen. You don’t have to set every colour, but I do. I have some colour schemes for urxvt here, mostly ripped from other terminal emulators: http://bleah.co.uk/~simon/desktop/_Xresources.d/ Note: I include .Xresources.d/urxvt-colours in my .Xresources file. I haven’t done this, but with urxvt I should be able to have both a light and a dark colour scheme and be able to switch it with a key press. Simon -- A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.—John Gall
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