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

[Diego Xirinachs]

I support this change also.
On Jan 23, 2012 3:57 PM, "Adon Metcalfe" <adon.metcalfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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