Re: [vile] default colors in 9.7y

[Chris G]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:41:23AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Chris G wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 01:58:58PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >>On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Chris G wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:55:55PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> >>>>I just updated the vile/xvile ports under FreeBSD to 9.7y.
> >>>>
> >>>>I must say that the new default colors really suck if you're not
> >>>>using a black background - apparently the default for uxvile.
> >>>>
> >>>>I generally use cornsilk2 and most of the highlighting is unreadable
> >>>>with a light background :(
> >>>>
> >>>The default colours never worked too well on a light background, are
> >>>they even worse now?
> >>>
> >>>I think maybe there should be *two* sets of defaults because there
> >>>will always be those who want to work in 'black' windows and those who
> >>>want to work in 'white' ones.  It's a bit like vi/emacs wars!  :-)
> >>
> >>For that sort of thing, there's the color-schemes.  But color-schemes
> >>basically assume that the default text/background colors are distinct.
> >>
> >I'm lost!  :-)
> >
> >I was trying to say that *no* colour scheme is going to work well on
> >both a dark background and a light background.  My suggestion was that
> >maybe two color-schemes should be available with the standard [x]vile
> >build, one for dark/black background and the other for light/white
> >background.  You could choose with configure maybe.
> >
> >OK, once up and running one can fine tune the color-scheme but it's
> >useful to have somewhere to start from.
> 
> In palettes.rc, I defined 6 color schemes (rearrangements of the existing
> colors, so that for instance vile can show blue on a light background when
> the syntax filter asks for yellow).  (Aside from occasionally seeing that
> the naming scheme isn't that intuitive, it works well enough ;-)
> 
Ah, I think I see now, having taken a look at palettes.rc etc.

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Chris Green