[Bug 1184035] [NEW] Please make :set background=dark the default

[Nick Moffitt]

Public bug reported:

Ubuntu has had a default terminal colour scheme of white text against a
dark purple background for a few years now, yet the default behaviour
for vim is with bg=light.  This results in almost illegible colour
choices for syntax highlighting (dark blues and reds are not helpful
against a dark purple background).  Every time I ssh into a remote
machine and run vim, I am forced to :set bg=dark before I can read any
comments.

Please consider making a dark background the default assumption in
Ubuntu's vim package.

** Affects: vim (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Please make :set background=dark the default

Status in “vim” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Ubuntu has had a default terminal colour scheme of white text against
  a dark purple background for a few years now, yet the default
  behaviour for vim is with bg=light.  This results in almost illegible
  colour choices for syntax highlighting (dark blues and reds are not
  helpful against a dark purple background).  Every time I ssh into a
  remote machine and run vim, I am forced to :set bg=dark before I can
  read any comments.

  Please consider making a dark background the default assumption in
  Ubuntu's vim package.

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