Re: Color scheme

On Sep 19, Bruce Korb wrote:

> Hi,
> I go to the trouble of wrapping my vim invocation inside
> of a function that adds "-i NONE" to the command line.

I assume you mean -u?

> I do this because somebody thinks it's really cool to
> have dark purple or blue letters on a black background.
> [...]

Vim thinks your terminal has colour capability, and is
guessing a light background.

It can't guess reliably, so to ensure it thinks you have
a dark background you can tell it with ":set background=dark".
You should see the legibility of the colours improve after
this.

> I'd go back to plain vi, but it is not supported anymore.

I mean, if you like bugs that will never be fixed ... :-)

> SO, how can I force vim to never, ever try to colorize my
> text ever again? Thank you.

To tell Vim that no colours are available:

set t_Co=0

You can add this to your command to invoke Vim:

vim -u NONE -c 'set t_Co=0'

--Antony

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