On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:04:22PM +0000, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:49:58 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:10:00AM +0000, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> I'm mucking with syntax highlighting in vim (specifically, I like dark > >> backgrounds, but the red (for strings) and the blue (for comments) are > >> almost impossible for me to read). > > > > Have you tried ':set background=dark'? That's usually a quick way to get > > readable colours. > > My background is black as night -- blacker, actually.
I know, but ':set background=dark' clues vim into this fact so that it uses a different set of colours. > Actually, here's a question. Do the following represent actual colors? > And if so, how? > > set t_AB=^[[%?%p1%{8}%<%t%p1%{40}%+%e%p1%{92}%+%;%dm > set t_AF=^[[%?%p1%{8}%<%t%p1%{30}%+%e%p1%{82}%+%;%dm Those look like encoded ANSI escape sequences: /usr/share/doc/xterm/ctlseqs.txt.gz may be of some help. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]