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icansee.vim : Custom color scheme for maximum legibility on dark background.

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created by
John Rhee
 
script type
color scheme
 
description
Black (dark) background, with no obnoxious bold colors.  My attempt at a clean, legible color scheme, tested for half a year with various solaris/linux/windows file types (scripts/configs/etc.).
Tested on vim 6.x - 7.0.
 
install details
Place in your vim installation's colors directory:
   ~/vimfiles/colors/   (or $VIM/vimfiles/colors/)

To auto-load this color scheme every time vim is launched, add below "source" line into your vimrc file.  
   source $HOME/vimfiles/colors/icansee.vim    "(or $VIM/vimfiles/colors/icansee.vim)
   set t_Co=256   "Set terminals to use 256, instead of 16, colors for proper DarkGray use.

To find where your vimrc (settings file) is, run vim, then do :scriptnames.  If it lists nothing, then you probably have the "tiny" version (vim --version).  Recompile to use "normal" or "big" for color support.

Enjoy!
 

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package script version date Vim version user release notes
icansee.vim 0.3 2019-12-09 7.0 John Rhee Prevent same fore/background for diff.
icansee.vim 0.2 2007-09-11 7.0 John Rhee Set PreProc (set variables) to white.
icansee.vim 0.1 2006-05-24 7.0 John Rhee Initial upload
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