vi(vim) background colors

On 30 May 2003, Ted Gould wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 21:26, Bob Holtzman wrote:
> > On 30 May 2003, Ted Gould wrote:
> > > :se bg=dark
> >
> > Thanks for the info. Works fine but is there a way to put this in
> > an alias?
>
> I'm guessing that you want VIM to do this all the time. The list of
> commands that VIM executes on start-up is in ~/.vimrc. So you basically
> would just have one line in your .vimrc for every command you would
> execute. Here is my .vimrc:

Thanks. The problem was that .vimrc wasn't in my $HOME directory. I had
never copied it over.

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