I have a custom defined colour "0 96 255 Bob_Blue" that I want to use in more than one place in Windows gvim 7.3. I can do this by adding it to $VIMRUNTIME\rgb.txt but that will be lost when I upgrade. Defining colours in other places has been discussed comprehensively before e.g. in 2005 [1], the upshot as I understand it is that you have to define the name in rgb.txt, the file cannot be in another location, but changes to it are instantly available without restarting vim. As far as I can tell from the help and other searches this is still how it works.
I'm therefore thinking of having a few lines at the start of _vimrc that will search rgb.txt for my custom colour and add it if not present. I'm wondering if there's an obvious problem with doing that, or maybe I'm overlooking a better way to define a new colour - I can't find one? Some other ways I've considered and rejected: . Always use #0060FF instead of the name . Redefine one of my Windows system colours and use that . Define it as a highlight group instead of a colour per se regards, Geoff [1] http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/How-to-solve-E254-Cannot-allocate-color-darkyellow-td1139869i20.html -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
