On Jul 9, 2011, at 3:47 AM, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > 1) If the colorscheme you've come to love is one distributed with Vim (and > found in $VIMRUNTIME/colors/) then don't modify it in-place. The way to > modify such a scheme for your own youse is to: > a) Make sure that directory $HOME/.vim/colors exists, and if necessary, > create it, with its parent if that doesn't yet exist either > b) Copy the colorscheme you want to edit into that new directory, and give it > a new name that doesn't clash with the name of any existing colorscheme > c) THEN you may modify that "new" colorscheme without fear. > > (Anything in the directory tree starting at $VIMRUNTIME may be silently > modified whenever you upgrade Vim.)
Thanks, Tony. Yeah, it was distributed with Vim, with MacVim that is. And I did what you said -- copied the scheme to ~/.vim/colors and made the changes there. And thanks, too, for the pointers to relevant help. Sincerely, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- 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
