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Alessandro Fano
Alessandro Fano

Reputation: 21

How to change color themes in Vim for Windows 7

I'm a Vim beginner and I would like to change the color theme to a more appropriate one for C programming (I'm using Windows 7, Vim 8.2). After looking for a while, I found the Dracula theme https://draculatheme.com/vim/ but I'm having some trouble installing it. First of all, I could not locate the .vim folder as the instruction says. I have C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim with a _vimrc file, vimfile and vim82 folder. I tried anyway to create the themes and start folder in the pack folder located in \vim82, but when I try to git clone it, I get this message: "fatal: could not create work tree dir 'dracula': Permission denied". Any help?

EDIT: after running the cmd.exe as administrator, I was able to clone the repository. It doesn't work though. I also tried :echo $HOME, it indicates a vimfile folder in C:\Users\XXXX. I tried the same here but with no results.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2756

Answers (1)

Eltabei Mohamed
Eltabei Mohamed

Reputation: 134

In windows, vimfiles folder can be located in $HOME\vimfiles or in $VIM\vimfiles.
* More information: :h vimfiles

To install a colorscheme manually (without using a plugin manager), you need to download all its files https://github.com/dracula/vim, then copy all files in these directories (after, autoload, colors, and doc) to directories of same names inside vimfiles folders.

To use the colorscheme, place this in your _vimrc: :colorscheme dracula

Upvotes: 1

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