Hi gary thank you very much for your explanation i have my color scheme as default now =) thanks again
juan On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Gary Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011-05-26, Juan incaurgarat wrote: > > > gary and pansz, ive been trying some things with the colors, and > downloaded a > > color scheme that i like si far. so now im using it on VIM and GVIM =) > > the thing i dont get yet, is the .vimrc thing > > is it a file? or a you mean the command line on VIM? > > if its a file, either i dont have it or i cant find it. > > Juan, > > I'm sorry, I just assumed that you knew about the .vimrc file. That > is Vim's configuration file. It resides in your HOME directory, > which is the directory named /home/<user> where <user> is your user > name, the name you use when you log in. It is also referred to as > ~/.vimrc because most shells expand ~ the same as $HOME. Within > Vim, the name is saved in the environment variable $MYVIMRC. > > The .vimrc file is not created automatically, you have to create it > yourself. It contains the same kinds of commands that you type at > Vim's command line. These are called ex commands. > > So for example, if you find that you like some particular > colorscheme and want to use it all the time, start Vim and execute > > :e ~/.vimrc > > If that file exists already for some reason, it will appear in Vim. > Otherwise, Vim will display something like > > "~/.vimrc" [New File] > > at the bottom of the screen. Enter into that file the line > > colorscheme blue > > where you should replace "blue" by the name of the colorscheme you > like. Then just save that file and the next time you open vim or > gvim, that colorscheme will be set automatically. > > As you find other Vim settings that you would like to use all the > time, you can open that file and add those settings to it. An > example .vimrc file can be found in $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim. > > You can read more about the .vimrc file here: > > :help vimrc-intro > > Regards, > Gary > > -- > 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 > -- 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
