OT screen colors in "vim" don't even try....

[John Esak]

I gave up on colors in "vi" when all the Linux's I use only supply "vim"...
Maintenance controlled by a complete ass.... Sorry, I had email dealings
with the guy and he is simply that, and ass.  

:" Maintainer:  Bram Moolenaar <Bram at vim.org>
:" Last change: 2005 Jun 12

Well, you can see his level of interest by the date stamp on the "product".
He is really on the ball, huh?

But, whoever is really responsible for the actual release version of "vim"
is a complete technical moron as well.  There is simply NO WAY to eliminate
the syntax coloring... Not with any command or series of commands, not in
any .vimrc, or .vimrc variant in any of the multiple directories spread
across the file system... not any way, not any how.  If anyone feels they
can send me values that will completely and forever turn off *all* syntax
coloring in "vim" (on the latest release of any Debian flavor)... Do it.  I
will bet you $100 I can within seconds turn the colors into unreadable and
unwanted impossible color combinations from within any file.  Bill Joy
writes a thoroughly perfect, unbreakable program, and these arrogant and
incompetent little assholes turn out a piece of crap without the simplest
on/off switch for their "improvements".  They obviously learned their
programming from cracker jack box sites on the net, and "learn Programming
in 21 Days" nonsense books that are as ill-equipped as they themselves are.
I'm sorry, I don't see how the millions and millions of Linux users out
there just put up with this kind of bullshit.  It's a shame because some of
the Linux devotees I know *have* the programming expertise to do it right...
I wonder why they don't complain.

But, giving up on colors *is* the only thing one can do when forced to use
"vim", the crappiest program ever foisted on a whole world. I would be
ashamed to add a *feature* to something that didn't work properly and
couldn't be turned off. Just plain stupid.

Maybe the Debian flavors of Linux I'm talking about here are just not ready
for prime time... But hell, that has been my complaint for 20 years now!!!!
It's just ever going to be so, huh?

John Esak