set foreground=green

[sixtyfootersdude]

I have been using vim on solaris for about 4 months but but just
switched back to Mac OS X so I thought I would start using MacVim.

Normally I use a black background and green font (as the default). I
cannot seem to figure out how to do this. My understanding is that I
should put this:

set foreground=green

into my ~/.gvimrc. Using:

set background=dark

Works to change the background color (almost) black.

This the error that I get:

% gvim .bashrc
Error detected while processing /Users/me/.gvimrc:
line 5:
E518: Unknown option: foreground=green% Error detected while
processing /Users/me/.gvimrc:
line 5:
E518: Unknown option: foreground=green

Thanks,
Jake

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[Yi Wen]

should be guifg

On May 15, 1:38 pm, sixtyfootersdude <sixtyfootersd...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Kyle Lippincott]

Not for 'set'.

Jake: You can accomplish this with putting this in your gvimrc:

highlight Normal guifg=green guibg=black

You can get information on what color names are available by going to :help macvim-colors

But this is probably not what you really want.  I recommend going to http://code.google.com/p/vimcolorschemetest/, click on the language of your choice at the bottom, wait for the page to load, find a colorscheme close to what you want, download it and put it in the right place (I believe ~/.vim/colors/<schemename>.vim).  You can then tweak it to your liking.  This file is just a collection of various 'highlight' commands like above with the labels needed to work with all of the default syntax files.