Please make :set background=dark the default

[Nick Moffitt]

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.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.