patch 9.1.0061: UX of visual highlighting can be improved Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/e6d8b4662ddf9356da53f56e363b67b524fd8825 Author: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org> Date: Sun Jan 28 23:33:29 2024 +0100 patch 9.1.0061: UX of visual highlighting can be improved Problem: UX of visual highlighting can be improved Solution: Improve readibility of visual highlighting, by setting better foreground and background colors The default visual highlighting currently is nice in that it overlays the actual syntax highlighting by using a separate distinct background color. However, this can cause hard to read text, because the contrast between the actual syntax element and the background color is way too low. That is an issue, that has been bothering colorschemes authors for quite some time so much, that they are defining the Visual highlighting group to use a separate foreground and background color, so that the syntax highlighting vanishes, but the text remains readable (ref: vim/colorschemes#250) So this is an attempt to perform the same fix for the default Visual highlighting and just use a default foreground and background color instead of using reverse. I also removed the hard-coded changes to the Visual highlighting in init_highlight. It's not quite clear to me, why those were there and not added directly to the highlighting_init_<dark|light> struct. closes: #13663 related: vim/colorschemes#250 Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>

" An example for a vimrc file.
"
" Maintainer:	The Vim Project <https://github.com/vim/vim>
" Last Change:	2023 Aug 10
" Former Maintainer:	Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
"
" To use it, copy it to
"	       for Unix:  ~/.vimrc
"	      for Amiga:  s:.vimrc
"	 for MS-Windows:  $VIM\_vimrc
"	      for Haiku:  ~/config/settings/vim/vimrc
"	    for OpenVMS:  sys$login:.vimrc

" When started as "evim", evim.vim will already have done these settings, bail
" out.
if v:progname =~? "evim"
  finish
endif

" Get the defaults that most users want.
source $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim

if has("vms")
  set nobackup		" do not keep a backup file, use versions instead
else
  set backup		" keep a backup file (restore to previous version)
  if has('persistent_undo')
    set undofile	" keep an undo file (undo changes after closing)
  endif
endif

if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running")
  " Switch on highlighting the last used search pattern.
  set hlsearch
endif

" Put these in an autocmd group, so that we can delete them easily.
augroup vimrcEx
  au!

  " For all text files set 'textwidth' to 78 characters.
  autocmd FileType text setlocal textwidth=78
augroup END

" Add optional packages.
"
" The matchit plugin makes the % command work better, but it is not backwards
" compatible.
" The ! means the package won't be loaded right away but when plugins are
" loaded during initialization.
if has('syntax') && has('eval')
  packadd! matchit
endif