On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 12:22 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jun, 2020 at 10:53:46 +0200, Lucio wrote: > > Il 22/06/20 10:05, elvis ha scritto: > > > Somewhere on your system maybe /usr/share/vim or in /etc that default > > > colour scheme is defined or linked to a real colour scheme. Find it. > > > > I couldn't find the link, but I found /usr/share/vim/vim81/colors directory, > > that contains only 19 colorschemes: not that hard to bruteforce after all. > > I've tried all of them one after the other and I finally found "ron" to be > > the real default one, despite "colorscheme default" not loading "ron"... > > > > Why "colorscheme default" doesn't load the real default, or why the real > > default goes by the name of "ron" and "default" is a non-default choice, is > > beyond me: maybe Debian exhausted the symlinks pool, so renaming the > > "default" file as "classic" or something and symlinking "default" to "ron" > > would have broken the whole system, but it doesn't really matter anymore... > > problem solved, thanks for your help. > > > > I think what happened is that when you set the default colour scheme > interactively a light background was assumed. That's why you get less > contrast in your second screenshot. If you subsequently do ':set > bg=dark' it should look like the first screenshot.
Hmmmm, I (Debian Buster) ran bg=dark, and then 'colorscheme ron' and now I have no colors. er, Thanks! -Jim P.