X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4EFB9F00.1080807@cpan.org> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:58:08 -0500 From: Rafael Kitover Reply-To: rkitover AT cpan DOT org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: vim colorscheme References: <33047325 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> In-Reply-To: <33047325.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 12/28/2011 4:47 PM, dirtyfishtank wrote: > > Hey all. Does anyone know how to change the color scheme for the vim editor > in Cygwin. > > I have the 'color' folder installed and in vi/vim mode I can use > :colorscheme to temporarily change the color of the background, > but it only works with certain color schemes not all of them. Also, how do I > set one of these colourschemes as a default. There is no vimrc file within > the cygwin directory. > > Ideally I want to use the "pablo" or "torte" color scheme (which are > installed in the 'color' folder) as they are easy to follow for development. > > Any help would be great You can make a .vimrc in your home directory as specified in /etc/passwd, usually /home/something (echo $HOME). If you are using the windows console rather than mintty the number of colors is very limited, I believe 8 or 16. If you use mintty you have 256 colors which is much nicer for vim. I use this color scheme with mintty: http://cachemiss.com/files/256_darkdot.vim third-party color schemes go into ~/.vim/colors -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple