VIM Syntax Colors

[Barry Buchbinder / Isabelle Trocheris]

That did the trick!  Thanks.

- Barry Buchbinder

> To: cygwin at cygwin dot com 
>      Subject: RE: VIM Syntax Colors 
>      From: Lee <vega@rhubarb.custard.org> 
>      Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 12:21:53 +0100 (BST) 
> 
> I use Vim on a variety of different machines and on a few
> different platforms. I found the colours in cygwin to be
> a bit too dark. Instead of figuring out how to remap the
> colours in the .vimrc I put this in instead:
> 
> set background=dark
> syntax on
> 
> Even if you have previously set the syntax to be on, or if
> not, you must do it after the background setting. This will
> force vim to set the colours that are better suited for
> dark backgrounds and not force vim to have a dark
> background. Now the colours look pretty much identical in
> DOS and cygwin.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> ~Lee

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