From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 24 21:34: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from laurasia.com.au (lauras.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.93.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0375114C3C for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 21:34:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@laurasia.com.au) Received: (from mike@localhost) by laurasia.com.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id NAA12444; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 13:31:43 +0800 (WST) From: Michael Kennett Message-Id: <199911250531.NAA12444@laurasia.com.au> Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? In-Reply-To: <000801bf370c$decd6080$c29bc5d1@01031149> from Duke Normandin at "Nov 24, 99 10:15:55 pm" To: 01031149@3web.net (Duke Normandin) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 13:31:42 +0800 (WST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Duke, [rant about vi trimmed] > I'm outta here --- back to man setterm -- I hate white-on-black. I > fell like I'm in a funeral parlor :-) BTW, Greg -- thanks for your > comments/suggestions re FBSD UGs! That's not going to help you (on *BSD at least). I'd have a look at vidcontrol (1). It controls the screen colours, amongst other stuff. e.g. $ vidcontrol yellow blue changes the foreground colour to yellow, background to blue. Read the manpage.... and have a play, Mike Kennett (mike@laurasia.com.au) PS. FWIW, I'm a vi user :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message