Friday, April 19, 2019

Re: colorscheme 16-bit

Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better console:

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vt&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+12.0-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html

;-)

On Fri, 19 Apr 2019 at 19:52, meine <trialero@gmx.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> There are lot of great Vim colorschemes out there, but beware to use
> one in a plain tty console -- it looks like nothing. Recently I adopted
> switching relative and absolute line numbers, and that is where coloring
> is important. In console most of us probably use a more basic
> colorscheme, avoiding all the soft focus and tones that won't
> display anyway.
>
> Although most colorschemes in eg. vimcolors.org have a button to select
> `Term' savvy schemes, almost all of them are 256 colors and not the 8 or
> max 16 colors you have in a decent tty console. `Term' isn't the same as
> a plain console without GUI.
>
> This afternoon I did the following (to end frustration ;-):
>
> 1. download the colorscheme you like most, and put it in ~/.vim/colors/
> Open the file in your preferred editor, and use it with `:color <myscheme>'
>
> 2. look for the lines with the parts that most annoy you in console. For
> me it was LineNr, Comment and CursorLineNr. The first two where too dark
> and the last one I wanted yellow instead of white (nighted.vim
> scheme);
>
> 3. change the value of `ctermfg' to a 16-bit value that actually works.
> Leave the rest that is fine; Search the Net for a `256colors2.pl' Perl
> file that gives your console color numbers (top row 0-7, bottom row
> 8-15);
>
> 4. save (as) the changed colorscheme under the same name with eg. `_16b' on
> the end to mark your changes;
>
> 5. test your adapted colorscheme with `:color <myscheme>_16b' and
> evaluate your changes. Don't forget to change the naming of the
> colorscheme in the top lines of the <myscheme>_16b.vim file: `let
> g:colors_name = <newname_with_16b>'. This is improtant for proper
> working in your `vimrc';
>
> 6. if it works, just add your `_16b' scheme to your .vimrc.
>
> For me it works!
>
> Happy Easter Weekend!
>
> //meine
>
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