Ubuntu terminal and colors

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:59:05AM +0300, Noam Rathaus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I used to use vimdiff quite a lot, but it has become impossible to use with 
> Ubuntu's terminal (gnome I presume) color selection.
> 
> The colors used by the gnome terminal simply make it impossible to compare 
> (too dark, or too light). I tried several profile colors offered, but it aint 
> doing it ...
> 
> Any suggestions?

First-off, have you tried toggling 'background' (setting it to either
'light' or 'dark')?

Apart from that, you can try playing with color schemes.

I now have:

syntax on
colorscheme delek
if &diff
	syntax off
	colorscheme evening
endif

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