Re: Default vim colorscheme?
On Mon, 22 Jun, 2020 at 09:35:45 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 12:22 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Jun, 2020 at 10:53:46 +0200, Lucio wrote:
> > > Il 22/06/20 10:05, elvis ha scritto:
> > > > Somewhere on your system maybe /usr/share/vim or in /etc that default
> > > > colour scheme is defined or linked to a real colour scheme. Find it.
> > >
> > > I couldn't find the link, but I found /usr/share/vim/vim81/colors directory,
> > > that contains only 19 colorschemes: not that hard to bruteforce after all.
> > > I've tried all of them one after the other and I finally found "ron" to be
> > > the real default one, despite "colorscheme default" not loading "ron"...
> > >
> > > Why "colorscheme default" doesn't load the real default, or why the real
> > > default goes by the name of "ron" and "default" is a non-default choice, is
> > > beyond me: maybe Debian exhausted the symlinks pool, so renaming the
> > > "default" file as "classic" or something and symlinking "default" to "ron"
> > > would have broken the whole system, but it doesn't really matter anymore...
> > > problem solved, thanks for your help.
> > >
> >
> > I think what happened is that when you set the default colour scheme
> > interactively a light background was assumed. That's why you get less
> > contrast in your second screenshot. If you subsequently do ':set
> > bg=dark' it should look like the first screenshot.
>
> Hmmmm, I (Debian Buster) ran bg=dark, and then 'colorscheme ron' and now
> I have no colors. er, Thanks!
>
Also on buster. I don't see the behaviour you describe. Very odd.
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