Re: Colors on mac

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 04:53, Ven Tadipatri <vtadipatri@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>   I'm sure this question has been asked several times --but I'm using
> the terminal for the Mac OS X, and I would like to have a dark
> background with well, light colors on the foreground. But I would also
> like the colors on the foreground to be easy to read (not dark blue on
> dark black or light yellow on white).   How do I do this?
>   There is a "pro" and a "homebrew" terminal for the Mac.  I tried
> playing around with the "desert" and "wombat" color scheme,
> but the problem for the Mac is the blue and yellow colors -- they
> always seem painful to read.
>   Does anyone use the "pro/homebrew terminal" for the Mac OS X?  Do
> you change the LSCOLORS variable on your terminal? Do you redefine
> what RGB values correspond to yellow and blue are in the terminal? Or
> do you add a new color to ~/.vim/colors and somehow tweak the colors
> to look right?

You may want to experiment with colorschemes, e.g.

:colorscheme murphy

gives well readable / viewable colors.

I hope this helps,

Guido

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