Bug 65439

Summary:	vim defaults to color mode
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Joe Acosta <josepha48>
Component:	vim	Assignee:	wdovlrrw <brosenkr>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Joe Acosta 2002-05-24 05:02:23 UTC

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Description of problem:
It seems that in 7.3 doing vi /etc/named.conf (or any other file) starts vim in
color mode. This is fine if you have a white background, but with a black
background you cannot see most of the text.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. vi a file in 7.3
2. make sure you have no .vimrc 
3. make sure the background of the xterm is a dark blue-black color.
	

Actual Results:  dark unradable colors

Expected Results:  forground color on background color

Additional info:

syntax highlightening (sp) is good, but only if you can read th4e text.  The
default behavior should be off like in RH 5.0 to 7.2 versions.

Comment 1 Karsten Hopp 2002-07-09 10:54:57 UTC

syntax highlighting will stay as the default as this is easier for Linux newbies.  
You can turn this off by adding 'unalias vi' to your ~/.bashrc. Or you can add the following 
to your .vimrc and switch between the syntax modes with F7: 
:map <F7> :if exists("syntax_on") <Bar> 
        \   syntax off <Bar> 
        \ else <Bar> 
        \   syntax enable <Bar> 
        \ endif <CR> 
        \ <CR>

Comment 2 Bill Carlson 2002-07-23 15:12:09 UTC

Additional way to fix this "problem".

in ~/.vimrc (create if needed) put:

set background=dark

This will select a color palette that is more suitable for an xterm with a
'dark' background. One can also set this while running vim to temporarily change
the color palette.

Note that Redhat 7.x seems to have changed the default value for background from
'dark' to 'light' in vim.