[Gllug] vim nasty colours

[Stephen Harker]

On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 22:39 +0000, Alain Williams wrote:
> Something that I ought to know & discovered once, but forgot.
> 
> I have to use vi/vim on one machine, and the poxy thing insists on trying to
> colourise (or should I say colorize ?) shell scripts & the such. The result is
> that they are completely unreadable (eg dark blue on my black background).
> How do I switch this perverse misfeature off ? I want it black & white (as God intended).
> 
> I have searched through the documentation but can't see anything.

Well, you could put

set background=dark
syntax on

in to ~/.vimrc to make it colourise properly with a black background.

Or just put "syntax off" instead to switch it all off.

Steve

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