Friday, August 20, 2010

Re: Silly question maybe: What's the purpose of color schemes

On 08/20/10 10:09, Jeri Raye wrote:
> To me personally I have only one scheme with my personal prefferences.
> And for all my filetypes it's all the same.

I do the same thing too -- just my "timchase.vim" colorscheme.

Very rarely, I'll define a syntax-coloring item on-the-fly for a
particular file, but I can't say I do that more than 1-2x in the
course of a year. And it doesn't get saved anywhere outside that
particular editing session.

> Why for example do you prefer dark color schemes (black/grey
> brackground, soft letter colors).

For me, I prefer light-on-dark instead of dark-on-light because I
find it easier on my eyes -- fewer photons bombarding my optic
nerves. It's been my choice ever since I had Turbo Pascal's IDE
with the ability to set my color preferences (back in the late
80's or early 90's).

My preference would be for my entire PC to use such a colorscheme
(including Thunderbird and my browser's defaults), but enough
programs break by assuming black text will appear visible,
forcing their font-color but not background-color. I've had
better success in Linux (than Win32 or Mac) with setting my
system (GTK) scheme to be grey-on-black, but some apps still have
enough issues with it to use dark-on-light for my defaults. At
least Vim (and my xterm/rxvt) allows me to do as I please.

-tim


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