Re: vim: available colors?
Monique Y. Herman declaimed:
> I'm mucking with syntax highlighting in vim (specifically, I like dark
> backgrounds, but the red (for strings) and the blue (for comments) are
> almost impossible for me to read).
>
> How do I know which color names are available for a given colordepth? I
> assume that using 'set t_Co=16' is going to give me fewer color options
> than if I set that to, say, 256 (and would any terminals support 256?).
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice!
Well, aside from adjusting your brightness and contrast ;-) try
:help syntax
Down at item 16. (in my version) is a bunch of stuff about xterms.
Everything in vim seems to be customizable, the eternal question is
whether it's worth figuring out how...
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