Vim and color settings

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Vim and color settings

Hi
I'm usin the latest version of Iterm. I downloaded some colorschemes for vim and installed them in an appropriate manner...and they work -- sort of. The colors are not as they should be and i'm at a loss as to why this is.

I realize this is short but am hoping someone can send me in the right direction.

Thanks

Pb G4, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Mar 7, 2007 8:06 AM

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Answer 1

Zerwas

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Mar 7, 2007 9:54 AM in response to snigelman

Do you mean the Syntax Coloring in vim? And where do you install the colorschemes?

Vim comes with an big Syntax Library. When you have activated the Syntax Coloring, vim set automatically the right coloring for the language.

Sorry, but your question is not completely clear.

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snigelman Author

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Mar 7, 2007 1:08 PM in response to Zerwas

Hi

Sorry i was a bit unclear. No i dont mean syntax highlightinh, i mean colorschemes for vim.. for instance on www.vim.org you can download a colorscheme called rdark.vim

its supposed to look like this http://ld.yi.org/vim/rdark/

but running vim on my powerbook after having installed rdark.vim in
.vim/colors/

and changing .vimrc in my homefolder to "color rdark"

makes no change whatsoever. Something other than vim seems to be controlling the colors.

All very confusing to me any way.

Thanks

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Answer 3

Jun T.

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Mar 8, 2007 12:13 AM in response to snigelman

The color scheme (and most of other schemes) works only for gvim; it does not work for vim running in a terminal (Terminal.app, iTerm.app, xterm, etc.).

You can download gvim for MacOSX from http://macvim.org/.

PowerMacG4, PowerBookG4, iMac(C2D) Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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dave42

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Mar 9, 2007 7:34 PM in response to Jun T.

The console version of vim that comes installed on OS X contains themes (color files) pre-installed at /usr/share/vim/vim62/colors.

In your .vimrc:

" set colorscheme
colorscheme evening

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Answer 5

snigelman Author

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Mar 10, 2007 5:14 AM in response to dave42

excellent.. thanks should have found those myself.. they work well

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