Hi,
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> On Jul 9, 2011, at 3:47 AM, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>
>> 1) If the colorscheme you've come to love is one distributed with Vim (and
>> found in $VIMRUNTIME/colors/) then don't modify it in-place. The way to
>> modify such a scheme for your own youse is to:
>> a) Make sure that directory $HOME/.vim/colors exists, and if necessary,
>> create it, with its parent if that doesn't yet exist either
>> b) Copy the colorscheme you want to edit into that new directory, and give
>> it a new name that doesn't clash with the name of any existing colorscheme
>> c) THEN you may modify that "new" colorscheme without fear.
>>
>> (Anything in the directory tree starting at $VIMRUNTIME may be silently
>> modified whenever you upgrade Vim.)
>
> Thanks, Tony. Yeah, it was distributed with Vim, with MacVim that is. And I
> did what you said -- copied the scheme to ~/.vim/colors and made the changes
> there. And thanks, too, for the pointers to relevant help.
Just to emphasise, with my suggestion step 'b' is slightly different:
- create a *new and empty* file in "~/.vim/colors/", for instance
"zellner_mod.vim",
- add the following (here *reusing* the zellner colorscheme):
runtime colors/zellner.vim
let g:colors_name = "zellner_mod"
- add or override any highlights you want,
- use :colorscheme zellner_mod to load it.
The key thing is that :runtime sources the colorscheme from where it
is -- so you don't have to copy its contents. This means it can be
updated and your modified version will get those changes as well
(unless it overrides them of course).
(See :help :runtime for details; the gist of it being that it works
like :source but looks for the path given in each directory by
'runtimepath' (i.e. $VIMRUNTIME, your local $HOME/.vim, eventual
pathogen bundles, etc.).)
('let g:colors_name = ...' is of course set to whatever name you gave
this new colorscheme.)
Best regards,
Niklas
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