On 03/29/2012 03:45 PM, /dev/ammo42 wrote: > On my system, BACKGROUND is set neither in Konsole 3.5.13, nor in > xterm, nor in Terminal (the Xfce terminal emulator). > And vim (7.2.416) doesn't complain. My ~/.vimrc contains > set bg=dark > , perhaps you should add a similar line to your .vimrc ? I bet that's it! I don't have any .vimrc set other than the arch default -- which is on the light side :) I'll give it a shot when I get home. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.