Re: .vimrc

[will trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

smells like there should be a newbieDoc in this somewhere...

On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:17:27PM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote:
> I followed the thread about setting tabs in vim, and I have a question
> regarding the syntax highlighting option.  How is the color mapping
> determined?  I find the blue to be horrid in my (black background)
> xterms.  Addtionally, since mutt runs in a xterm window, and uses vim
> to compose mail, it has that horrid blue hightlighting some lines of
> text in a reply mail.
> 
> Is there a way to change this?  I have put that line:
>   set background=dark
> -within the:
>   if has("syntax")
> -section, but it has no effect.

to answer your last question,

	yes.

--

to satisfy your curiosity further:

just to be sure, try

	$ apt-get install vim-rt

then you can have your own ~/.muttrc color-designator specs,
including something like

	set editor="vim -c 'set ft=mail tw=64'"

	# COLORS
	# thanks to flubber@xmission.com
	color  hdrdefault      brightgreen     black
	color  header          brightyellow    black   "^from:"
	mono   header          bold                    "^from:"
	color  header          brightyellow    black   "^subject:"
	mono   header          bold                    "^subject:"
	color  header          brightcyan      black  "^to:"
	color  header          brightcyan      black  "^date:"
	color  header          brightcyan      black  "^x-mailer:"
	color  quoted          white           black
	color  signature       brightgreen     black
	color  indicator       brightblue      brightgreen
	color  error           brightred       black
	mono   error           bold
	color  status          brightgreen     brightblue
	color  tree            brightmagenta   black
	color  tilde           brightmagenta   black

	color  body            brightyellow    black (((ht|f)tps?)|mailto):(//)?[^\ "\t]*|www\.[-a-z0-9.]+)[^\ .,;\t>">]
	mono   body            bold (((ht|f)tps?)|mailto):(//)?[^\ "\t]*|www\.[-a-z0-9.]+)[^\ .,;\t>">]
	color  body            brightwhite     black "[-a-z_0-9.]+@[-a-z_0-9.]+"
	mono   body            bold "[-a-z_0-9.]+@[-a-z_0-9.]+"
	color  body            brightyellow    black   "^Good signature"
	mono   body            bold                    "^Good signature"
	color  body            brightwhite     red     "^Bad signature from.*"
	mono   body            bold                    "^Bad signature from.*"

	color index green default "~d >2m" # old messages
	color index green black "~d >6m" # really old messages
	color index default black "~Q" # replied-to
	color index yellow default "~P" # from me
	color index brightyellow default "~p" # to me
	color index brightwhite default "~F" # [!] flagged

and in your ~/.vimrc, try something like

	set background=dark
	" use my personal syntax file
	let mysyntaxfile = "~/.syntax.vim"
	syntax on

which links to a corresponding ~/.syntax.vim looking like

	" There are two sets of defaults: for a dark and a light background.
	if &background == "dark"
	  hi Comment	term=bold	ctermfg=DarkGreen			guifg=#80a0ff
	  hi Constant	term=underline	ctermfg=Yellow			guifg=#ffa0a0
	  hi Special	term=bold	ctermfg=LightRed			guifg=Orange
	  hi Identifier	term=underline	ctermfg=DarkCyan			guifg=#40ffff
	  hi Statement	term=bold	ctermfg=LightRed			guifg=#ffff60	gui=bold
	"  hi PreProc	term=underline	ctermfg=LightBlue			guifg=#ff80ff
	"  hi Type	term=underline	ctermfg=LightGreen			guifg=#60ff60	gui=bold
	"  hi Ignore		ctermfg=black			guifg=bg
	else
	"  hi Comment	term=bold	ctermfg=DarkBlue			guifg=Blue
	"  hi Constant	term=underline	ctermfg=DarkRed			guifg=Magenta
	"  hi Special	term=bold	ctermfg=DarkMagenta		guifg=SlateBlue
	"  hi Identifier	term=underline	ctermfg=DarkCyan			guifg=DarkCyan
	"  hi Statement	term=bold	ctermfg=Brown			guifg=Brown	gui=bold
	"  hi PreProc	term=underline	ctermfg=DarkMagenta		guifg=Purple
	"  hi Type	term=underline	ctermfg=DarkGreen			guifg=SeaGreen	gui=bold
	"  hi Ignore		ctermfg=white			guifg=bg
	endif

	" vim: ts=19 sts=0

(that final line tells vim to set tabs for cleaner display, which
wouldn't be needed if i used fifty gazillion spaces instead of
itty bitty ol' tabs. this is a religious issue, beware.)

if you're hungry for more, there's lots. try

	$ locate syntax.vim
	$ locate mail.vim
	$ lynx /usr/share/doc/mutt/html/manual.html
	$ lynx http://www.mutt.org/

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:
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