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[ILUG] Changing the default gvim colours (was: Re: Emacs vs. Vi)

[ILUG] Changing the default gvim colours (was: Re: Emacs vs. Vi)

John Gaughan elric at csn.ul.ie
Fri Apr 23 13:01:15 IST 1999


On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, John P. Looney wrote:
[...]
> 
>  BTW, anyone know how to change colours in recent versions of gvim ? It
> doesn't listen to the vim*foreground type things in .Xdefaults...

You should be able to change them with highlighting commands, try:

hi Normal guifg=<foreground colour> guibg=<background colour>

I haven't got an X11 version of gvim to check it but it should work.  FWIW,
it does work with gvim 5.3 on win32.

J.

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