xfer problems sco-sun

[Bill Vermillion]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 08:44:40PM -0500, Fairlight thus spoke:
> On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 12:19:03PM -0800, Bill Campbell may or may not have
> proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
> > Hmmmm.  I'd never played with the ``:color'' command in vim before, and rarely
> > use ``syntax on'' because I've found the normal vim color scheme
> > unreadable.  I find the ``pablo'' color difficult as the yellow on a white
> > background is virtually illegible, but that the ``blue'' and ``darkblue''
> > are pretty good, at least for the perl format.

> Erm....'pablo' is a black background here--wonder where the difference
> lies.  Now 'shine' on the other hand....*covers eyes*.

> I couldn't use darkblue...I never can read the dark red
> -easily-. I'm not colour-blind, I just have a hard time
> with it. And I -hate- it when the real deep navy blue is
> used--impossible for me to read without squinting.

Unless you have had the chart tests where you pick out the numbers
in the dot patterns that look similar to military camoflauge you
may be partially color blind.  A hard time with dark red and the
deep blue indicates to me that you may have some degree - as many
men do.

Bill
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