Comments on: Vim: Setting the colorscheme Doesn’t Work

By: Stuart Colville

Stuart Colville — Thu, 07 May 2009 08:28:51 +0000

If you’re finding you don’t have xterm-256color on your machine I found that installation of the ncurses-term package provided it on Hardy for example.

By: Jim Klo

Jim Klo — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:47:53 +0000

Actually, Bradley – gvim is just vim with gui extensions compiled in … the gui_running flag is honored AFAIK for all versions of VIM regardless

By: Bradley Wright

Bradley Wright — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:27:09 +0000

To be clear, “gui_running” is set by GVim, so that clause will never be true in the CLI version.

By: Stuart Colville

Stuart Colville — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:56:07 +0000

@Bradley Wright: nice tip

By: Bradley Wright

Bradley Wright — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:51:59 +0000

You can also fork the display logic in your .vimrc like so: if has('gui_running') colorscheme ir_black else colorscheme desert end