[ot] life of bright LED

Bill Campbell linux-sxs
Mon May 21 18:59:14 PDT 2007


On Tue, May 22, 2007, James McDonald wrote:
>Bill Campbell wrote:
>>On Tue, May 22, 2007, James McDonald wrote:
>>  
>>>>>>- for the left half of the pills, the color is unique among
>>>>>>manufacturers, e.g. manufacturer A using color 0x0a0a0a, manufacturer B
>>>>>>using color 0x0b0b0b. With this first rule, you know which pills are of
>>>>>>which manufacturers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>- for the right half of the pills, each manufacturer can assign
>>>>>>different colors for different products
>>>>>>          
>>>>By the colors :) 
>>>>
>>>>Vu
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>      
>>>About 1 in 10 people in the male population has some kind of colour 
>>>blindness so your system would only work for Pilots.
>>>
>>>    
>>And the people designing the syntax highlighting color schemes
>>for vim must be amongst the color blind population :-).
>>
>>  
>Yes truly but I'm thinking a lot the time it's because the default 
>background is black and the scheme would look better if the background 
>was white.

I don't think so as my default background is white.

Using ``:color evening'' results in white on black with fairly
legible colors with ``:syntax on'', but I've become accustomed to
the white background so only use that color setting when I want
to turn syntax on.

Bill
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