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The ctermfg=white is used to set the foreground color to white in a terminal text editor. Finally, the ctermbg=black is used to set the background color to black in a terminal text editor.
In Vim, if your color scheme supports both a light and dark mode, you switch between by using the command: set background=dark or set background=light . In Alacritty, you can define multiple color schemes and switch between them easily in the config file alacritty.
This highlight command can be read as “When using a color terminal (cterm), set the background terminal color (ctermbg) to Blue for the 'Normal' group.”
As vim's own help on set background says, "Setting this option does not change the background color, it tells Vim what the background color looks like. For changing the background color, see |:hi-normal|."
For example
:highlight Normal ctermfg=grey ctermbg=darkblue
will write in white on blue on your color terminal.
In a terminal emulator like konsole or gnome-terminal, you should to set a 256 color setting for vim.
:set t_Co=256
After that you can to change your background.
Try adding
set background=dark
to your .gvimrc too. This work well for me.
Using set bg=dark with a white background can produce nearly unreadable text in some syntax highlighting schemes. Instead, you can change the overall colorscheme to something that looks good in your terminal. The colorscheme file should set the background attribute for you appropriately. Also, for more information see:
:h color
gvim version: 8.2
location of .gvimrc: %userprofile%/.gvimrc
" .gvimrc
colorscheme darkblue
Which color is allows me to choose?
Find your install directory and go to the directory of colors.
in my case is:
%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\Vim\vim82\colors
blue.vim
darkblue.vim
slate.vim
...
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