_sc_ schrieb:
> 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
>
>
>
> >
>
Awesome! This was exactly the problem. CSApprox works really well! Thank
you all!
Cheers,
Torsten
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