Re: vim: available colors?

["Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:49:58 +0100, Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> penned:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:10:00AM +0000, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> Have you tried ':set background=dark'? That's usually a quick way to get
> readable colours.
> 
> Cheers,
> 

My background is black as night -- blacker, actually.

Actually, here's a question.  Do the following represent actual colors?
And if so, how?

   set t_AB=^[[%?%p1%{8}%<%t%p1%{40}%+%e%p1%{92}%+%;%dm
   set t_AF=^[[%?%p1%{8}%<%t%p1%{30}%+%e%p1%{82}%+%;%dm


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monique