Should we set vim's default background colorscheme to assume dark?

[Paul Graydon]

On 01/23/2012 11:44 AM, Clint Byrum wrote:
> This bug was filed fairly recently:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/871907
>
> I tend to think that its a bit confusing why we default to a light
> background setting in vim, when our default terminals all are dark.
>
> I have not checked on any of the other flavors of Ubuntu, but at least
> on our main desktop configuration, all terminals have a dark background.
>
> This seems like a no-brainer, so I was thinking of uploading a fix before
> FeatureFreeze, but I wanted to open up the discussion a bit wider in
> case there are people who feel that this might be too radical of a change.
>
> The change would be simple.. vim defaults to a light background, so in
> the default vimrc for precise, we'd change it to have background=dark.
>
> I have CC'd ubuntu-server, because I'm certain there are a lot of users
> of non-Ubuntu desktop platforms who ssh into Ubuntu servers, and would
> possibly be affected by this, whether negatively or positively.
>

I'd say yes to making dark default.  It's something that's surprised me 
early on when using Ubuntu post clean-install, but not enough to trigger 
me to make a ticket about it.
I'm so used to doing the change now I don't think about it but it 
probably would be of enough value.

Paul