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 <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 5:44 AM, Clint Byrum <<a href="mailto:clint@ubuntu.com">clint@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This bug was filed fairly recently: <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/871907" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/871907</a> 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. -- ubuntu-server mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server</a> More info: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam</a> </blockquote></div> -- Regards, Adon Metcalfe Coordinator - Applications Solutions IT Operations Regional Services Division Department of Environment and Conservation (WA) 17 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington WA 6151 Postal address: Locked Bag 104 Bentley Delivery Centre WA 6983