On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 09:55:59AM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
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> I'm afraid I'm an old emacs user, and got to know vi, but have paid very
> very little attention to vim's extensions since it was introduced to linux.
>
> Could you do me a favour and digress about where the colours are actually
> set? :) TERM=linux ...I'm running on the consoles.
On my system (Red Hat Linux 5.2, Red Hat's default Vim installation), all
relevant files are in /usr/share/vim/syntax/ - with "syntax.vim" being the
main file in which (if I'm not mistaken) the colours are defined. You can
override the colours in your .vimrc/.gvimrc Here's an example from my
.gvimrc:
" Set nice colors
" background for normal text is light grey
" Text below the last line is darker grey
" Cursor is green
" Constants are not underlined but have a slightly lighter background
" highlight Normal guibg=grey90
highlight Cursor guibg=Red guifg=White
highlight IncSearch gui=NONE guibg=Paleturquoise guifg=Black
highlight NonText guifg=grey80
highlight Visual gui=NONE guibg=black guifg=yellow
highlight Comment gui=NONE guibg=bg guifg=#6920ac
highlight Constant gui=NONE guibg=bg guifg=fg
highlight String gui=italic guibg=bg guifg=green4
highlight Identifier gui=italic guibg=bg guifg=blue3
highlight Function gui=bold guibg=bg guifg=red3
highlight Statement gui=bold guibg=bg guifg=blue3
highlight PreProc gui=bold guibg=bg guifg=maroon4
highlight Macro gui=italic guibg=bg guifg=blue3
highlight Type gui=NONE guibg=bg guifg=cyan4
highlight Special gui=NONE guibg=grey95
As for the definitions as to how the names ("Cursor", "Comment", etc.pp.)
are used, again, have a look at syntax.vim and the other files in
..../vim/syntax.
HTH,
Thomas
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