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On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, sabrina downard wrote: > "Black and white text is boring. With colors your file comes to > life. This not only looks nice, it also speeds up your work." > > black and white text is legible on my xterm, you goddamned presumptively > default configured pile of /shit/. if i wanted syntax highlighting and > all my twiddles turned dark blue, i know how to do it my own damn self. > > i hate logging on to a new system and having to adjust my .profile and > .exrc to override all the whiz-bang shiny defaults that all the clever > fifteen year-olds think are required. setting a path? reasonable. > setting up color defaults for everything from ls to vim to my damned > command-line prompt? knock it off! While I generally agree that people thinking they're smarter than the user is a stupid thing (I'm talking to you and your .inputrc, Red Hat!), I also have to agree with this particular snippet that colors rock. Unfortunately, even though basically no one alive still uses a white background in xterms, all colors default to working fine on white backgrounds but working for shit on dark backgrounds. I spent a significant amount of time a few years ago stealing all of the colors for dark backgrounds from GVim (no, not vim -- I never got it's "dark background" thing to work) and getting them to work for me. I've added them all to my .Xdefaults file, and now the colors actually look good (i.e., no dark, unreadable blue, except on Apple's crappy Terminal.app): Rxvt*color0: Black Rxvt*color1: #ffa0a0 Rxvt*color2: Green3 Rxvt*color3: #ffff60 Rxvt*color4: #80a0ff Rxvt*color5: Orange Rxvt*color6: #40ffff Rxvt*color7: Wheat Rxvt*color8: Grey25 Rxvt*color9: IndianRed Rxvt*color10: Green3 Rxvt*color11: #40ffff Rxvt*color12: #80a0ff Rxvt*color13: #ffa0a0 Rxvt*color14: #40ffff Rxvt*color15: Wheat Rxvt*cursorColor: Wheat This is (somewhat obviously) black background and wheat foreground. I kind of ran out of colors, and I never got bold to work so the last 8 are entirely redundant. -- Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. --Howard Scott --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://config.sage.org
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