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

[Adon Metcalfe]

I'm all for it! its one of the customisations we apply (as well as setting
up pathogen =)) to all of our Ubuntu and RHEL hosts.

Kind Regards,
Adon

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 5:44 AM, Clint Byrum <clint at ubuntu.com> 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.
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