On Monday 27 April 2009 11:55 am, Charles Campbell wrote:
>
> Torsten A. wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I checked at vim color scheme test for different color schemes and
> > downloaded a few. But when ever I choose some color scheme it doesn't
> > look even close to whatever scheme I just downloaded. It looks like vim
> > gets all the colors wrong. Particularly the background never changes
> > from black to whatever color the scheme may choose.
> >
> > I use xterm, $TERM=xterm (though I already tried it with xterm-color -
> > the same) on Debian Squeeze, vim 7.2.130.
> >
> > Do I misunderstand something? I thought when choosing a color scheme it
> > should look the same as in the preview, shouldn't it? Unfortunately I
> > wasn't able to find any hints.
> >
>
> Here are some things you could check on...
>
> Are you using the command
> :colors [scheme-name-here]
> ?
>
> Did you put the downloaded colorscheme into your
> .vim/colors/
> directory?
>
> Does your vim support syntax highlighting?
> :echo has("syntax")
another thing that might be useful to suggest is that not all
colorschemes work in vim -- many are coded only for gvim
if there are schemes you want to use in vim that aren't really
coded for vim, the plugin CSApprox [1] is what you'll need -- it
does a very good job of translating gui colors to whatever
sc
[1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2390
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