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On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:40:01 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:



> far I know it is pretty much impossible to figure the

> foreground/background colors of the terminal you are running on.  You

> can try some guesswork based on $TERM (linux console usually has black

> background, xterm is white by default), but there will always be cases

> where it fails.



You can make it more explicit, similar to .vimrc:



:set background=dark or :set background=light which in turn set the

appropriate foreground colors.





Hagen