Re: colorscheme in vi

[Pierre Frenkiel <frenkiel@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 23 Dec 2022, Max Nikulin wrote:

> On 23/12/2022 18:36, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> > I wanted to open vi with a white background and a black fg
> > to do that,
>
> Do you mean graphical gvim window or vim running in a terminal? In the latter 
> case which one and should vim follow terminal background? Is tmux or screen 
> involved?
>
> Besides colorscheme there is another setting
>    :set background=dark
> or
>    :set background=light
> I do not remember if proper value is reliably chosen during startup e.g. for 
> terminal applications setting TERM=xterm-256color
>
> Finally, if
>    colorscheme white
> works despite the warning, what happens if you commented out or removing this 
> line?
hi, 
thank you for your post,
At last I actually did that, i.e. I replaced the vi binary by a script
which redirects stderr to /dev/null, and that works perfectly
best regards,
Pierre Frenkiel