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Sunny
Sunny

Reputation: 10075

Why are some colorschemes in VIM not working?

I am trying to download some VIM colorschemes but they seem not to work. Here is an example:

http://vimcolorschemetest.googlecode.com/svn/colors/vylight.vim

and yet another example:

http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=16130

I was able to install a few other colorschemes and they work. I copied them in the following directory: /usr/share/vim/vim73/colors As other colorschemes copied there work, I guess the location is OK. I simply use :colorscheme scheme-name(without .vim extension) and the above ones do not work. I am using VIM 7.3.

Also, any suggestions for cool VIM colorschemes for HTML, JS and PHP would be welcomed.

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 802

Answers (1)

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172510

These colorschemes are GUI-only; i.e. they only work in GVIM, not in the terminal. You'll recognize that because the contained :highlight commands only contain gui[fg|bg]=... definitions.

Plugins like CSApprox can take the GUI color definitions and convert them to a closely matching 256-color cterm color palette for high-color terminals. This helps with colorschemes that otherwise only pick from the bland default 16-color terminal color palette, or only provide GUI color definitions.

Another approach is taken by csexact, which modifies the (supported) terminal's palette to exactly match Vim's GUI colors.

Install location

You've used the system install location to place your colorschemes. It's better to put them into your user's configuration instead: ~/.vim/colors/ (as you presumably also set them into your ~/.vimrc).

Upvotes: 5

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