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The short answer is that it's presumably some vim theme that he likes, but I'd guess that the origin of that is that DOS text-based applications had a long-running convention
not always universally used
of using white text on blue, unlike the Unix convention of white on black.
You can see that persisting in things like default Midnight Commander color choices (it's set up to look like the MS-DOS Norton Commander):
...or in Network Manager's console-menu-based utility,
nmtui. I think that thedialogpackage and prior to that, thenewtpackage, both for showing curses-based menu-based interfaces, also defaulted to white-on-blue, probably for the same reason.Its a woman.
Probably ':colors blue'. I had a brief stint with this scheme cerca early 2000s