Thank you Brett and rest of guys for your help!

I simply added
syntax on
in my .vimrc as suggested by Brett. and the colorscheme start to work.

Shuda

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Brett Stahlman <[email protected]>wrote:

>
>
> On Nov 21, 10:37 am, shuda Li <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I de-installed Vim72 by running the following command:
> >
> > >sudo apt-get remove vim-tiny vim-runtime vim-gui-common vim-gnome
> vim-doc
> >
> > vim-dbg vim-common vim jvim-doc jvim-canna libvi-quickfix-perl
> > libtext-vimcolor-perl vimhelp-de vim-vimoutliner vim-syntax-gtk
> vim-scripts
> > vim-rails vim-puppet vim-nox vim-latexsuite vim-gtk vim-addon-manager
> >
> >  and installed Vim 7.3 by compiling the source. Tho OS I use is Ubuntu
> > 10.04.
> >
> > However, when I start Vim7.3 I found the colorscheme doen't work any
> more. I
> > tried all choice in "Edit -> color schems".  Only the background color
> was
> > applied see attached image.
> >
> > I wonder what's wrong with my new installation.
>
> Are you sure you have...
> syntax on
> ...in your .vimrc? If you don't have this command somewhere in your
> startup, activating a specific colorscheme will change background
> color, but you won't get language-specific syntax highlighting.
>
> Sincerely,
> Brett Stahlman
>
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Shuda
> >
> >  Screenshot.png
> > 277KViewDownload
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