I have used vim for a while now, but after my friend introduced me to gvim, I'm trying to use it now. I have basic vimrc settings of :
set guifont=Monaco:h17
colorscheme zellner
set number
syntax on
I noticed that the settings were applied to my gvim. I want a different colorscheme for gvim and vim as I usually open the files I'll read quickly with vim or vi, and use gvim as my main code editor.
I heard people talk about the .gvimrc file, but I don't have it where my .bashrc, .zshrc, and .vimrc are.
How do I have separate colorschemes for gvim and vim?
Vim doesn't create either ~/.vimrc or ~/.gvimrc for you so you have to create them on your own.
You can either create the missing file in your shell, then edit in Vim:
$ touch ~/.gvimrc
$ vim ~/.gvimrc
<some editing>
:wq
or do everything from Vim:
:e ~/.gvimrc
<some editing>
:wq
Note: ~/.vimrc is still sourced whether you have a ~/.gvimrc or not so your gvimrc can be kept lightweight by only having GUI-specific options and overrides. In your case:
" ~/.vimrc
colorscheme zellner
set number
syntax on
" ~/.gvimrc
set guifont=Monaco:h17
colorscheme slate
You can do it in a single ~/.vimrc:
if has("gui_running")
colorscheme zellner
else
colorscheme blue
endif
See http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/eval.html#has() and http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/eval.html#feature-list
I'm wondering why my VIM can't apply the changes I modify in $MYVIMRC. The changes only apply to GVIM instead of VIM. I have the following in $MYVIMRC:
syntax on
colorscheme tomorrow-night
I also tried changing the color scheme setting in the command bar below by typing :colorscheme tomorrow-night but nothing changed. Why is it not changing?
The main difference between Vim and GVim is that GVim is an independent application that does not run in your terminal emulator.
If you use Vim and GVim for different purposes, I recommend you to create also a gvimrc file. But if you want to keep a single vimrc file, you can do something like this:
if has('gui_running')
" GVim
set guifont=Larabiefont\ 13
else
" Vim
set t_Co=256
set termguicolors
endif
colorscheme archery
Notice the set termguicolors in this code. I think this is the most convenient solution nowadays for common issues with colorschemes. It tells Vim to use the true colors defined for GVim with hexadecimal notation in guifg and guibg (instead of ctermfg and ctermbg).
I am just trying to set up vim such that I get the colors I prefer.
I created a ~.vimrc file and set syntax on
I then went Terminal > Preferences > Profile > Text and have been changing the ANSI colors such that the file looks the way I want
Unfortunately I have come across the problem that conditionals (if, else, and so on) are not using any of the ANSI colors and I therefore cannot change my preferences this way.
I have been looking in the vim syntax located at /usr/share/vim/vim73/syntax to see how this is implemented. I see where these are grouped, but cannot seem to find where the colors are assigned and why I cannot overwrite just this in my preferences.
where am I able to go to find this code, and what are some of the options for customizing this
NOTE
I am on Mac Yosemite 10.10.5
There are many colorscheme available. My favourite colorscheme to highlight the keywords is gruvbox following are the steps to install.
installing pathogen
mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload ~/.vim/bundle
curl -LSso ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim https://tpo.pe/pathogen.vim
installing the colorscheme gruvbox
git clone https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox.git ~/.vim/bundle/gruvbox
add the following to your ~/.vimrc file
execute pathogen#infect()
colorscheme gruvbox
set background=dark " Setting dark mode
I've installed the vim-gitgutter plugin with pathogen.
I can type :GitGutterLineHighlightsEnable from inside vim and line highlights are turned on, great.
But I want line highlights to be automatically enabled at startup, so I added the command to my ~/.vimrc. However when I start vim, I get "E492: Not an editor command: GitGutterLineHighlightsEnable". Once vim has started up, I can run the command.
My vimrc looks like this:
execute pathogen#infect()
colorscheme railscasts
.. snip tabs and colors etc ..
GitGutterLineHighlightsEnable
hi GitGutterAddLine guibg=#222F22
hi GitGutterChangeLine guibg=#222239
hi GitGutterDeleteLine guibg=#2F2222
Figured it out.
.vimrc is executed before plugins are loaded. From this related question, I changed the commands to:
autocmd VimEnter * GitGutterLineHighlightsEnable
This executes the command after vim has started up.
Use
let g:gitgutter_highlight_lines = 1
instead of
GitGutterLineHighlightsEnable
As you determined yourself, plugins are processed after the .vimrc.
What you can do if you don't like using a VimEnter autocmd, is put a file in your ~/.vim/after/plugin directory for any commands that should run after plugins are loaded.
The latest upgrade of Ubuntu made my vim colorscheme unusable. I know how to set it manually (:colo evening, for example), but I want to set the default for all vim sessions. I see reference in other places to .vimrc, but the right location and syntax have eluded me thus far.
Put a colorscheme directive in your .vimrc file, for example:
colorscheme morning
See here: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Change_the_color_scheme
Your .vimrc file goes in your $HOME directory. In *nix, cd ~; vim .vimrc. The commands in the .vimrc are the same as you type in ex-mode in vim, only without the leading colon, so colo evening would suffice. Comments in the .vimrc are indicated with a leading double-quote.
To see an example vimrc, open $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim from within vim
:e $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
It's as simple as adding a line to your ~/.vimrc:
colorscheme color_scheme_name
You can try too to put this into your ~/.vimrc file:
colorscheme Solarized
What was asked for was to set:
the 'default', not some other color profile, and
'for all vim sessions', not simply for the current user.
The default colorscheme, "for all vim sessions", is not set simply by adding a line to your ~/.vimrc, as all of the other answers here say, nor is the default set without the word 'default' being there.
So all of the other answers here, so far, get both of these wrong. (lol, how did that happen?)
The correct answer is:
Add a line to your system vim setup file in /etc/vim/ that says
colorscheme default
or using the abbreviation
colo default
but not capitalized as
colo Default
(I suggest using the full, un-abbreviated term 'colorscheme', so that when you look at this years later you'll be able to more easily figure out what that darn thing does. I would also put a comment above it like "Use default colors for vim".)
To append that correctly, first look at your /etc/vim/vimrc file.
At the bottom of mine, I see these lines which include /etc/vim/vimrc.local:
" Source a global configuration file if available
if filereadable("/etc/vim/vimrc.local")
source /etc/vim/vimrc.local
endif
So you can append this line to either of these two files.
I think the best solution is to append your line to /etc/vim/vimrc.local like this:
colorscheme default
You can easily do that in bash with this line:
$ echo -e "\"Use default colors for vim:\ncolorscheme default" \
| sudo tee -a /etc/vim/vimrc.local
#
# NOTE: This doesn't work:
#
# $ sudo echo 'colorscheme default' >> /etc/vim/vimrc.local
#
# It's the same general idea, and simpler, but because sudo doesn't
# know how to handle pipes, it fails with a `Permission denied` error.
Also check that you have permission to globally read this file:
sudo chmod 644 /etc/vim/vimrc.local
With $ tail /etc/vim/vimrc.local you should now see these lines:
"Use default colors for vim:
colorscheme default
You can just use the one-liner
echo colorscheme koehler >> ~/.vimrc
and replace koehler with any other available colorscheme. Imho, all of them are better than default.
Once you’ve decided to change vim color scheme that you like, you’ll need to configure vim configuration file ~/.vimrc.
For e.g. to use the elflord color scheme just add these lines to your ~/.vimrc file:
colo elflord
For other names of color schemes you can look in /usr/share/vim/vimNN/colors
where NN - version of VIM.
Ubuntu 17.10 default doesn't have the ~/.vimrc file, we need create it and put the setting colorscheme color_scheme_name in it.
By the way, colorscheme desert is good scheme to choose.
Copy downloaded color schemes to ~/.vim/colors/Your_Color_Scheme.
Then write
colo Your_Color_Scheme
or
colorscheme Your_Color_Scheme
into your ~/.vimrc.
See this link for holokai
OS: Redhat enterprise edition
colo schema_name works fine if you are facing problems with colorscheme.