On 27/04/09 18:55, 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")
>
> Regards,
> Chip Campbell
Did you set filetype detection on?
:filetype
Have you set ":syntax on"?
:if exists("syntax_on")|echo syntax_on|else|echo "unset"|endif
And in addition: each colorscheme actually consists of three almost
totally separate colorschemes: one for monochrome terminals (there
aren't many of these left, but they mostly used to be one of
black-and-white, black-and-amber or black-and-green), one for color text
terminals and one for the GUI. Any highlight group that the colorscheme
doesn't specify for the terminal currently in use falls back to the Vim
default for that terminal.
In addition, the Vim default colors (and, if they care, the
colorschemes) come in two variants for each terminal type, depending on
whether the default background set by the system for that terminal is
"light" or "dark". For instance, xterm and the Linux console are both
color text terminals, but the former uses (on my system) white
background while the latter uses black background. (Detection of whether
the background is "light" or "dark" isn't perfect: Vim sometimes has to
guess, and sometimes it guesses wrong.)
So if the examples are for the GUI, you'll get different colours in a
text terminal; and if it is for a dark-background text terminal, it will
probably appear differently in a light-background text terminal.
And finally: colorschemes usually don't affect font settings, so if you
use a different font than what was set when the screenshot was taken,
the characters will of course be shaped differently.
Best regards,
Tony.
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