Bug 133804
| Summary: | vim: defaults to colors suited to light backgrounds (should be dark) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Zack Cerza <zcerza> |
| Component: | vim | Assignee: | Karsten Hopp <karsten> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-09-29 10:36:54 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Embargoed: | |||
I don't agree with your statement that people prefering light backgrounds are rare. Taking a look around in our office at other peoples vim sessions, light backgrounds are actually way more common then dark backgrounds. It's a difficult task to make everyone happy. Maybe I should try to get help on fedora-devel to test all color schemes from http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=625 with light and dark backgrounds, but I'm tempted to close this as "won't fix" I wasn't stating or implying that people prefer light or dark backgrounds. gvim always uses a light background, if your gtk themes does. The linux console always uses a black background. X users can use gvim, but console users can't. I just think the console default should be friendly to console users, since the X default is always friendly to X users. (there's no magic way for vim to know what its fore/background colors for "normal" text are and make a decision based on that, is there?) vim already checks the environment and automatically uses bg=dark on the console. Edit a .c file which using the console (.c only to see the highlight colors) and try to switch to bg=dark. You'll see that nothing changes, whereas switching to bg=light will result in some different colors. |
Description of problem: The default vim install uses colors suited to light backgrounds, which is a pretty rare case. Could we change the default? # diff -u /etc/vimrc.rpmnew /etc/vimrc --- /etc/vimrc.rpmnew 2004-09-21 06:59:14.000000000 -0400 +++ /etc/vimrc 2004-09-27 12:49:05.887773280 -0400 @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ " than 50 lines of registers set history=50 " keep 50 lines of command line history set ruler " show the cursor position all the time +set bg=dark " use colors suitable for dark backgrounds " Only do this part when compiled with support for autocommands if has("autocmd") Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vim-common-6.3.028-1