Color schemes for Vim

| September 17th, 2008

If you’re looking for color schemes for Vim, then you’ll enjoy the following link:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~maverick/VimColorSchemeTest/

Some of the schemes will work only in the Vim’s graphical interface (GVim), but there are others with color configs for Vim (running on a terminal, like xterm).

If you want a scheme that will work on vim in the terminal, make sure it has cterm, ctermbg and ctermfg configs. It’s also a good idea to run vim on a 256 color terminal. Take a look on these pointers for more on this:

http://www.jukie.net/~bart/blog/20060824224842

http://blog.cynapses.org/2006/08/09/konsole-256color/

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