Thursday, April 28, 2011

Re: syntax highlighting colors bold text

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 19:21, Ben Schmidt
<mail_ben_schmidt@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>>> I've redircted the output of ':verbose hi' along with the outputs of
>>> 'set' for both user and root earlier, and posted them in this thread,
>>> and they do differ.
>>
>> Yes; I glanced at that earlier. I didn't realise :verbose had been
>> included that time.
>
> I actually only saw the diff Tony included in his post. Perhaps your
> original diffs didn't make it to the list.
>
> An interesting option is this:
>
> :verbose set background?

as user:
:verbose set background?
dark
:set background=light

Yes, that was it!
I've put 'set background=light' into the '.vimrc' and everything looks nice now.

>
> ? It definitely affects boldness for some syntax colour stuff and is a
> likely candidate for affecting other colours too. Why Vim would
> detect/guess it differently when root and not, I don't know, but it
> could definitely be playing a part.

Well, this riddle remains unsolved.

>
> Ben.

You nailed it down, Ben.
Many thanks to you all!!!

:)

mih

ps. I've attached the output files again, if someone cares... and a
little picture.

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