After upgrading to Windows 10 1903 (18362.175), in Window Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Ubuntu 18.04, the background color is always set to black when scrolling backward in vi, vim, man and maybe some other tools.
Is there a workaround involving vi configuration or shell commands? (I would rather not install a different terminal emulator.)
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This Windows 10 terminal issue is documented in Vim background color renders incorrectly. A workaround is to set the vi background color to one of 16 working colors. In ~/.vimrc put:
highlight Normal ctermfg=black ctermbg=lightgrey
When in vim, this sets the text color to black and the background color to lightgrey.
Use :help cterm-colors in vim to see other working color names.
Also, in Windows 10 1903, Linux files can now be accessed from Windows. See link So a graphical editor like gvim (https://www.vim.org/download.php) can be used.