"Karsten M. Self" wrote:
>
> on Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 06:52:48PM -0700, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
...
> > > In particular, I'd like to enable syntax highlighting, and maybe get
> > > some ideas of what I should change to make things a bit more readable
> > > (some of my screen colors are very hard to read, particularly blue, also
> > > red, bolding them should help a lot).
> >
> > the gvim (opens vim in its own window) has much better colors since it
> > is not limited to few colors that xterm uses (by default).
>
> Prefer working in xterms (well, rxvts).
gvim has few advantages (apart from better colors) - it changes the
cursor (block for command mode, vertical line for insert, half block for
replace etc. (those are defaults)), when you split the window you can
move the split border using mouse (depends on mouse mode you set) etc...
not saying you should switch:-) [I usually use gvim for longer editing
sessions and vi for shorter ones]
> > also, set up your background (light or dark):
> >
> > set background=dark
>
> This has no effect. I'm already running gold (fg) on black (bg).
it should have effect on syntax highlighting - if you say you are
using dark background it will pick colors that are better for dark
background.
erik
