[Bug 871907] Re: vim should have "set bg=dark" by default

[Clint Byrum]

I'm hesitant to "fix" this bug, even though it affects me. There are
probably almost as many users with light background terminals as there
are with dark ones. So we'll just be exchanging 1 set of affected users
for another set.

Seems like we would need need to extend terminal applications to be able
to respond with whether they are dark or light. One simple way to do
that would simply be to introduce xterm-light and xterm-dark into the
global termcap database, and then have the terminals respond with that
based on a checkbox.

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Title:
  vim should have "set bg=dark" by default

Status in “vim” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The default GNOME Terminal settings have a dark background.  When
  syntax highlighting is active, the text is difficult to read.  The
  default vim settings should work better the default terminal settings.

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