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fenerlitk
fenerlitk

Reputation: 5834

command line VIM does not change background (stays black)?

I have tried this in both gVIM and VIM the background is correctly applied in gVIM but not in VIM, it just stays black. I use the command, :color zenburn I am running this in Windows XP, Command Prompt I also wonder how many colours command prompt in xp supports.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1723

Answers (3)

darcyparker
darcyparker

Reputation: 1219

In a windows command prompt, I find only 16 color color schemes work well. You may prefer to install cygwin and include mintty in the installation. mintty is a better terminal and I have no problem with 256 colors. http://code.google.com/p/mintty/

Upvotes: 1

Rook
Rook

Reputation: 62598

The colors for the GUI version and the console version of Vim are set differently in each colorscheme file. They don't even have to be set at all (some colorschemes define only the values for the GUI version and vice versa).

That being said, open up your colorscheme file (zenburn.vim) and look it up. If you're interested in the background color, check it up for a line looking similar to

hi Normal guibg=... guifg=.... ctermbg=.... ctermfg=...

or something similar.

The values should be there - change them to your liking if you wish.

Upvotes: 1

Greg Hewgill
Greg Hewgill

Reputation: 994897

The colour sets between "gui" vim (gvim) and "console" vim (vim) are completely different. They can even be completely different for the same colour scheme.

I'm unfamiliar with the "zenburn" scheme, but it sounds like it makes different choices depending on whether you're using the GUI or not.

The :highlight command has different arguments (term=, cterm=, gui=, etc) that define the different colours used by vim in different modes. You should be able to look at your zenburn.vim colour definition file to see what it is using.

Upvotes: 2

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