How to change Vi editor background

you can either

  • play around with
:set background=dark
:set background=light
  • or use another colorscheme:
:colorscheme tab
  • or change the coloring for a 'comment' in your current colorscheme with
:highlight Comment

(this shows you the current settings, change it via

:highlight Comment guibg=white

or to whatever color you want.


You can say the following in vim:

:set background=dark

This will set the syntax highlighting to bright colours. The opposite will set it to dark colours:

:set background=light