[IPython-dev] default colorscheme

Min RK benjaminrk at gmail.com
Mon Jul 4 22:09:59 EDT 2011


LightBG is the default on OSX, because the default terminal is black on white there.  If there's a good way to determine the actual background color, we could use that to make a more informed default decision.

-MinRK

On Jul 4, 2011, at 18:53, David Warde-Farley <wardefar at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> Hey guys, I'm playing with the rc1.
> 
> Maybe this has been covered before, but is there a reason for the switch to LightBG being the default on the console? Are most terminals white by default nowadays? I just notice because the syntax highlighting fails in interesting ways on dark terminals with the default setup (ideally pygments, if that's what's doing it, would just not color stuff meant to be the normal foreground text color, but that's asking a bit much).
> 
> David
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