Re: syntax highlighting colors bold text

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 19:54, Ben Schmidt
<mail_ben_schmidt@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Sorry for so many mails in quick succession!
>
>> :verbose set background?
>
> Yep; looking at the source code, it looks like the 'background' and
> 't_Co' options are to blame.
>
> And it looks like 'background' in this case must come from $COLORFGBG
> (since $TERM/'term' (T_NAME) is already known to be the same):
>
>    if (STRCMP(T_NAME, "linux") == 0
>            || STRCMP(T_NAME, "screen.linux") == 0
>            || STRCMP(T_NAME, "cygwin") == 0
>            || STRCMP(T_NAME, "putty") == 0
>            || ((p = mch_getenv((char_u *)"COLORFGBG")) != NULL
>                && (p = vim_strrchr(p, ';')) != NULL
>                && ((p[1] >= '0' && p[1] <= '6') || p[1] == '8')
>                && p[2] == NUL))
>        return (char_u *)"dark";
>    return (char_u *)"light";
>
> So, I guess deal with $COLORFGBG or put :set background=dark or :set
> background=light in your .vimrc and you should get you consistent results.
>
> The defaults actually use 'Light' colours, when available, but on an 8
> colour terminal, these are made bold instead. So, setting t_Co to 16 (or
> 88 or 256) would give different results (i.e. different colours, rather
> than bold, if your terminal can actually handle more than 8 colours,
> which it almost certainly can!).
>
> Let's know how it goes!
>
> Ben.

$COLORFGBG is set for the user, but not for root.

$ echo $COLORFGBG
default;default;0

Again, thank you!

Best regards, mih

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