Re: set bcolor to grey85?

[Brendan O'Dea]

On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 at 14:55, Steven Lembark <address@hidden> wrote:
> Catch: ";set bcolor grey85" (or "gray85") gives me nada, it won't
> take the argument. Similarly #f0f0f0 doesn't give me anything.

For vile in the terminal, colours are set with escape codes.
Historically most terminals supported a limited number (if any) of
colors, typically 8 or 16.  Terminal emulators such as xterm allow
Xresources to be used to set the values of these colours (see the
color0-color15 resources in the xterm manual page).

In vile, the command "show-colors" will show what those 16 colours
look like.  See also:

  :show-help
  /^Color basics

--bod