Bug 75177 - Syntax highlighting colors wrong in RH8.0
Summary: Syntax highlighting colors wrong in RH8.0
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: vim
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Karsten Hopp
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-10-05 05:36 UTC by Jordan Russell
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:47 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-10-05 05:36:52 UTC
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Description Jordan Russell 2002-10-05 05:36:46 UTC
Description of problem:
When using vim at the console, the colors used for syntax-highlighted text are 
the "dark" set of colors. Dark text on a black background isn't so easy to 
read, and it is not the correct behavior. To quote the vim manual 
<http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/vim2html2.pl?page=usr_06.txt#06.2>:

        Vim guesses the background color that you are using.  If it is black
        (or another dark color) it will use light colors for text.  If it is
        white (or another light color) it will use dark colors for text. 

Red Hat 7.3's vim does it right; it uses the light colors when running from the 
console.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
vim-enhanced-6.1-14

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
While logged in at the console, do:
vi /etc/bashrc

Actual Results:  We see the colors brown, dark red, and dark blue.

Expected Results:  As in RH 7.3, we should see the colors yellow, bright red, 
and bright blue.


Additional info:

I'm not entirely sure if the problem is in the vim package or outside...

Comment 1 Jordan Russell 2002-10-05 16:30:27 UTC
Nevermind. This is due to the Unicode font used by default in RH 8.0. (See also 
#75180.)


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