Hello

I would like to change some of the colours used by vim because they are hard to read against the pale rose and pale blue backgrounds I like. I have tried :set background=light but it does not make any difference.

Netsearching shows colours can be changed by adding lines like this to ~/.vimrcIn that example, presumably "Comment" identifies a text element of vim's display. How can I get a list of vim's text elements' names? I want to change the colours of line numbers and (programming language) keywords.

This vim command shows a list of colours in colour but many of them are paler than I would likeIs that the full range? Can they be tweaked using terminal emulator (mrxvt) settings?

Best

Charles

Found some answers by looking at the files in /usr/share/vim/vim72/colors and guessing. Line numbers are "LineNr" and what I was thinking of as language keywords are "Statements".

Definitely check this page out; a shed load of examples with the reqd settings
http://code.google.com/p/vimcolorschemetest/

Thanks chrsm01 Like you said -- a shed load of examples to work from.