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-rw-r--r--chapter01/changelog.xml4
-rw-r--r--chapter06/vim.xml8
-rw-r--r--general.ent4
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index d64b2d12a..ec64d33a3 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -107,6 +107,10 @@ first a summary, then a detailed log.</para>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
+<listitem><para>June 12, 2004 [alexander]: Re-added the "background" option to
+/etc/vimrc, since it has some educational value. Put this option inside an "if"
+statement because it applies to some, not all, terminals</para></listitem>
+
<listitem><para>June 11, 2004 [winkie]: Dropped hackish GRUB instructions in
favor of a patch from upstream.</para></listitem>
diff --git a/chapter06/vim.xml b/chapter06/vim.xml
index 18b810d31..87342421a 100644
--- a/chapter06/vim.xml
+++ b/chapter06/vim.xml
@@ -106,6 +106,9 @@ set nocompatible
set backspace=2
syntax on
set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,<replaceable>your-8-bit-charset</replaceable>
+if (&amp;term == "iterm") || (&amp;term == "putty")
+ set background=dark
+endif
" End /etc/vimrc
<userinput>EOF</userinput></screen>
@@ -126,6 +129,11 @@ like Fedora Core use UTF-8, and conservative ones like Debian
use traditional 8-bit encodings for text files. If you have not
passed the <option>--enable-multibyte</option> switch to the
<command>./configure</command> command above, this line will not work.
+Finally, the <emphasis>if</emphasis> statement with the
+<emphasis>set background=dark</emphasis> corrects <command>vim</command>'s
+guess about the background color of some terminal emulators. This gives the
+highliting a better color scheme for use on the black background of
+these programs.
</para>
<para>Documentation for other available options can be obtained by running
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 77325875f..452e33bde 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!ENTITY version "CVS-20040611">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "June 11, 2004">
+<!ENTITY version "CVS-20040612">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "June 12, 2004">
<!ENTITY milestone "6.0">
<!ENTITY lfs-root "http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/">