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Vim Color Scheme

June 20, 2019

Vim

The default color scheme for vim is not very friendly for comments since it has a dark blue color. You can change the color scheme with the following steps:

  1. Create an folder .vim in your home directory:

    mkdir ~/.vim

  2. Checkout the github repository for color schemes:

    git clone https://github.com/flazz/vim-colorschemes.git ~/.vim

  3. Create config file .vimrc in your home directory. The color scheme wombat is used in the example below.

    echo "colorscheme wombat" >> ~/.vimrc

If you do not like the color scheme wombat, you can use any other color scheme you like. To find all color schemes available, run:

ls ~/.vim/colors

A simple count shows that there is 972 different color schemes available for you to choose.

$ ls -l ~/.vim/colors | wc -l
972