On 12/28/2011 4:47 PM, dirtyfishtank wrote: > > Hey all. Does anyone know how to change the color scheme for the vim editor > in Cygwin. > > I have the 'color' folder installed and in vi/vim mode I can use > :colorscheme <color_name> to temporarily change the color of the background, > but it only works with certain color schemes not all of them. Also, how do I > set one of these colourschemes as a default. There is no vimrc file within > the cygwin directory. > > Ideally I want to use the "pablo" or "torte" color scheme (which are > installed in the 'color' folder) as they are easy to follow for development. > > Any help would be great
You can make a .vimrc in your home directory as specified in /etc/passwd, usually /home/something (echo $HOME). If you are using the windows console rather than mintty the number of colors is very limited, I believe 8 or 16. If you use mintty you have 256 colors which is much nicer for vim. I use this color scheme with mintty: http://cachemiss.com/files/256_darkdot.vim third-party color schemes go into ~/.vim/colors -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
