Re: vim: available colors?

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:04:22PM +0000, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> 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.
> 
> My background is black as night -- blacker, actually.

I know, but ':set background=dark' clues vim into this fact so that it
uses a different set of colours.

> 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

Those look like encoded ANSI escape sequences:
/usr/share/doc/xterm/ctlseqs.txt.gz may be of some help.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]