How to install a Vim color scheme

By mkyong | Updated: April 17, 2014

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In this tutorial, we will show you how to install a Vim editor color scheme named “distinguished“.

1. Default Color Scheme

Default syntax highlight in the “homebrew” profile terminal.

2. Install a new Vim Color Scheme

2.1 Download a new Vim color scheme – “distinguished“. Extracts and move the downloaded *.vim file to this folder ~/.vim/colors/.

mv ~/Downloads/vim-distinguished-develop/colors/*.vim ~/.vim/colors/

P.S Create the folders if not exists.

2.2. Edit the vim ~/.vimrc file, enable the syntax highlight and set the colorscheme to “distinguished”.

syntax on
colorscheme distinguished

Done, when you start Vim editor next time, by default, syntax highlight is enabled and the “distinguished” color scheme will be used.

3. Test

3.1 Open a file with Vim editor, the new “distinguished” schema will be applied. See figure below :

References

1. Vim color scheme – distinguished
2. 10 Vim color schemes you need to own