[gentoo-user] OT: "Bright" colours in xterm?

[gentoo-user] OT: "Bright" colours in xterm?

[Walter Dnes]

  When I fire up vim in a true text console, some of the colours are
bright.  When I do so in an xterm, the bright colours ar there, but as
soon as I hit a printable or arrow key, the brightness disappears.  I.e.
bright blue turns to dark blue, yellow turns to brown, etc.  Is there
some setting I can change to retain the bright colours?

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: "Bright" colours in xterm?

[Michael Mol]

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On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:

>   When I fire up vim in a true text console, some of the colours are
> bright.  When I do so in an xterm, the bright colours ar there, but as
> soon as I hit a printable or arrow key, the brightness disappears.  I.e.
> bright blue turns to dark blue, yellow turns to brown, etc.  Is there
> some setting I can change to retain the bright colours?
>

There are a couple ways you can do it. The first is through your
.xresources file. X11 keeps its session configuration and preferences in a
key/value store called resources, and you can drop stuff into that file to
configure just about anything.

'man xterm' to find the resources you can twiddle with.

The other thing you can do is add 'set background=dark' to your .vimrc.

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[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] OT: "Bright" colours in xterm?

[Walter Dnes]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 04:38:11PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote

> The other thing you can do is add 'set background=dark' to your .vimrc.

  Thanks.  That did the trick.  Not exactly intuitive, to say the least.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] OT: "Bright" colours in xterm?

[Michael Mol]

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On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 04:38:11PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote
>
> > The other thing you can do is add 'set background=dark' to your .vimrc.
>
>   Thanks.  That did the trick.  Not exactly intuitive, to say the least.
>

One of the first tricks I learned with vim.

When you have time, you should check out vim's builtin help system.



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