[ale] Android apps for reading books WAS: Print vs electronic:

[Scott Plante]

You can customize all the colors in vim if you like, but one quick and easy
thing to keep in mind is ":set bg=", as in:
:set bg=dark
or
:set bg=light

If you're in your main terminal app, you can put one of these in your
.vimrc, or if you're quickly logging into a remote system, it's easy to
type in the vim window. The problem is vim can't detect how your local
terminal is set up for colors. The "bg" is short for "background" in this
case, so use the one appropriate for your terminal settings.

Scott

On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 1:16 PM DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> On 9/27/21 12:42 PM, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> > Love those terminal settings with blue text on a black background.
> > Almost as useful as brown on black. Those same terminals often have
> > lime green on white or worse, yellow on white.
>
> A lighter blue text on black is fine, but the default in vim with the navy
> blue on black makes it so I cannot read **any** of the text at all.  I know
> there's text there, but that's about it.  Basically, it is like #ffffff for
> the background with #fffffe for the letters. Useless.  Cornflower blue -
> nice. Standard "blue" is terrible.
>
> Test:
> xterm -sb -fg "cornflower blue"  -bg black &
>    vs
> xterm -sb -fg blue  -bg black &
>
> I can't read the 2nd at all.
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