On Fri, 23 Dec 2022 at 23:31, Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 12:36:56PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:

> > I wanted to open vi with a white background and a black fg
> > to do that, I put in my .vimrc, as recommended, a line
> >     colorscheme white

"as recommended" by whom?

Because there is no colorscheme named "white" in Debian's
vim. The colorschemes are in /usr/share/vim/vim82/colors


> > that worked, except that each time I open vim, I get the message:
> >    cannot find color scheme 'white'
> > I don't worry, but is there a way to get rid of that warning?
>
> You could try using a different colorscheme.  Apparently, there's no
> way to get vim to tell you their names,

To see the available colorschemes, do this in vim:
:colorscheme<space><tab>

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