Color in Vim

I've been writing some PHP files on my arch box using vim and I realized there was no color syntax highlighting. After googling, searching the forum, and fiddling with some configuration files, I still haven't seen any color in my vim. When I enable syntax highlighting by adding "syntax on" to my ~/.vimrc, the PHP file gains some underlining and bold text. That's a step up from nothing, but not color. My /usr/share/vim/syntax files exist and they must be noticed by vim since it is doing a sort of b&w highlighting. I'm using gnome-terminal which supports color. When I "ls" in Arch, I get a colorful listing. My bash prompt is in color. So why isn't color working in vim?!
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Take a look at :help xterm-color from within vim.
If that doesn't do it, try setting the TERM shell variable to let programs know that colour is available. Here's mine:
TERM=xterm-xfree86, but I use xterm. Take a look at this page: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Why … rminals%3F for some more terminal related stuff.
Dusty

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Bad colors in Vim

Hello,
My problem is that colors for Molokai color-schema in Vim doesn't look exactly the same as in screenshot. Molokai isn't the only color-scheme for me that looks kinda weird and I think that's somehow related to terminal support for 256 colors.
I'm using `rxvt-unicode-256xresources` from AUR instead of official `rxvt-unicode` from repo. I have `set t_Co=256` in `.vimrc`. I have Molokai theme for Vim and for terminal (in `.Xresources`) as well, but still it looks kinda different.
http://i.imgur.com/12w08.jpg
Need advice to fix colors, thanks!
Edit: Screenshot shows all correctly (less or more), but actually it's much worse. Weirdly, but taking screenshots somehow fixed it?
Moderator edit: The included image is too big. Reduced to url.
Last edited by bernarcher (2012-12-15 20:08:05)

There appear to be some big differences, to my eye, between the gui colors and the cterm colors.
:hi Function
Function xxx ctermfg=118 guifg=#A6E22E
Color 118 is #87FF00. The cterm color 154, #AFFF00, is a better match to my eye. I edited a copy of the molokai color scheme, and toned down the electric green with:
:%s/=118/=154/g
I have spent some time coming up with a custom color scheme for vim in xterm and urxvt. I now always add this boiler plate to color scheme files so I don't have to remember these useful tips:
" To test, use
" :so %
" To see the current color setting for an individual syntax item:
" :hi Cursor
" To see all the highlight syntax groups:
" :so $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/hitest.vim
" Useful help pages:
" :he group-name
" :he highlight-groups
" Useful plugin:
" xterm-color-table.vim
" http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3412
" Usage:
" :XtermColorTable
The XtermColorTable plugin works in urxvt. That plugin shows a table in a vim window with the cterm color numbers next to blocks of the color. The display of RGB values can then be toggled using the mouse to select a color block or with single key commands.
Edited for spelling error correction.
Last edited by thisoldman (2012-12-17 11:21:04)

Terminal colors vs Vim colors [SOLVED]

Hey guys!
I've been using vim since the very first day I started learning programming, and am now using it on my brand new arch system. Everything works really well so far, but I'm having a bit of trouble customizing colors. I wouldn't normally make a big deal out of it, but since I'm going to spend an enormous amount of hours using it for school and personnal projects, I'd really like to get all my colors right. I'm using an urxvt terminal, under awesome wm.
Here are my 16 terminal colors:
http://tinypic.com/r/2yper6b/5
Here is what my vim loks like:
http://tinypic.com/r/s1547k/5
As you can see, vim uses a crap-looking, brownish-red color for line numbers and html tags. This color is not in any of the 16 I specified in .Xresources. I don't know where it comes from, but I would like for vim to use only these 16 colors. Is that possible? I assume it is, because most of my vim colors are changed whenever I edit them in .Xresources.
If not, I'd like to know how I can edit the colors vim uses myself. Thank you for reading!
Last edited by PolyBender (2013-05-12 00:35:41)

You select a colorscheme (:help colorscheme) in your vimrc. The themes can use 256 colors, which I find nice once I customized the theme/scheme. But if you want to limit it to 16, just `set t_Co=16` in your vimrc.

[SOLVED] How to convince vim my terminal supports color?

Hi. I recently got a shell account from Kaitocracy on his linode machine. I noticed that my bash prompt has color, as expected, but when I copied over my vim configuration (which includes a color theme), it didn't work! After some toying around, I noticed that vim recognizes the terminal escape codes using `:hi <type> start= stop=`, but not the existing `cterm` commands in my color theme. To make things more confusing, I know my terminal (urxvt) is capable of using the cterm flags.
Also, Ctrl+L does not clear/redraw the screen as expected.
What can I do to fix these issues? Here are the configs:
~/.vimrc:
" No vi compatibility; strictly vim here.
set nocompatible
" Don't source /etc/vimrc
set noexrc
" My background is always black
set background=dark
" The mouse is helpful every now and then...
set mouse=a
" I'm a Linux user
set fileformats=unix,dos,mac
" Search while I type
set incsearch
" The blinking pisses me off
set novisualbell
" Line numbers are key to debugging
set number
set numberwidth=5
" My tabs are 4 characters long
set tabstop=4
set softtabstop=4
" Indention is also 4 characters
set shiftwidth=4
" Normally, I don't want tabs converted to spaces.
set noexpandtab
" Syntax highlighting is a staple :D
syntax on
" I want liberal use of hidden buffers, just in case.
set hidden
set laststatus=2
" filename, filetype, readonly flag, modified flag line #, column #, %age of file length, hex value of byte under cursor.
" Ex: .vimrc [vim][+] 48,22 55% hex:20
set statusline=%f\ %y%r%m\ %l,%c\ %P\ hex:%B
set noai
" I can see where tabs and line endings are
set listchars=tab:▸\ ,eol:¬
" This turns on the config above; I can turn it off with :set nolist
set list
" I want wordwrap on, coupled with sane line-breaking. This will not work when :set list is active.
set wrap
set lbr
" My color scheme is pwn
colorscheme sporkbox
filetype indent on
if has("autocmd")
" enable filetype detection
filetype on
" I want to convert tabs to spaces to adhere to PEP 8.
autocmd FileType python setlocal ts=4 sts=4 sw=4 expandtab
endif
" \l toggles invisibles
nmap <leader>l :set list!<CR>
" I like to get rid of trailing white space.
nnoremap <silent> <F5> :call <SID>StripTrailingWhitespaces()<CR>
" Fast window movement is important
map <C-h> <C-w>h
map <C-j> <C-w>j
map <C-k> <C-w>k
map <C-l> <C-w>l
" Courtesy of vimcasts.org
function! <SID>StripTrailingWhitespaces()
" Save last search and cursor position
let _s=@/
let l = line(".")
let c = col(".")
" Do the business:
%s/\s\+$//e
" Restore previous search history and cursor position
let @/=_s
call cursor(l, c)
endfunction
~/.vim/colors/sporkbox.vim:
" Color scheme "sporkbox"
" by Daniel Campbell <[email protected]>
" Tab characters and EOLs should be dark gray so they don't stand out too much.
highlight SpecialKey ctermfg=darkgray
highlight NonText ctermfg=darkgray
" If I'm in a mode, I want to see it.
highlight ModeMsg ctermfg=green
" The current file should be obvious; the others can be faded.
highlight StatusLine ctermfg=green ctermbg=black
highlight StatusLineFC ctermfg=darkgray ctermbg=white
" Line numbers should be just-visible, not bright.
highlight LineNr ctermfg=darkgray
" Titles in Markdown
highlight Title cterm=bold ctermfg=white
" My splits should not be bright
highlight VertSplit ctermfg=black ctermbg=darkblue
highlight Comment ctermfg=darkgreen
highlight Constant ctermfg=cyan
highlight Identifier ctermfg=yellow
highlight Statement ctermfg=magenta
highlight PreProc ctermfg=lightblue
highlight Type ctermfg=blue
highlight Special ctermfg=lightblue
Remote .bashrc:
### ~/.bashrc: Sourced by all interactive bash shells on startup
# Set a fancier prompt
PS1='\[\e[32;01m\]\u\[\e[m\] \[\e[36m\]\w\[\e[m\]: '
# Turn on colors for ls and grep
alias less='less --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS'
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
# Set colors for ls and friends
if [ -f ~/.dir_colors ]; then
eval `dircolors -b ~/.dir_colors`
elif [ -f /etc/dir_colors ]; then
eval `dircolors -b /etc/dir_colors`
else eval `dircolors -b`; fi
# Compilation optimization flags
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
MAKEFLAGS="-j2"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=both"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
FFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CPPFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
export PGHOST="private1.kiwilight.com"
export PS1 CHOST MAKEFLAGS LDFLAGS CFLAGS FFLAGS CXXFLAGS
To make matters more confusing, my vim theme works when I connect to the linode in a GNU screen session, but not when it's a straight-up terminal.
Last edited by xelados (2010-04-25 00:34:44)

Mr.Elendig wrote:Make sure you are using rxvt-unicode-256color and that your TERM is rxvt-256color outside of screen, and screen-256color inside of screen.
That's the peculiarity of the problem; when I run vim in my local environment, I always get color using the `:hi <hilighttype> ctermfg=* ctermbg=*` commands. This applies inside of X through rxvt-unicode (non-256color), GNU screen, and on the plain command line in vc1. This issue seems to be related to the remote environment and/or variables not being sent through ssh.
@moljac: When I echo'd TERM inside a screen session, it returned "screen", so I don't know whether it's legit or not.
Last edited by xelados (2010-04-24 11:47:52)

[SOLVED] Odd colours in vim/urxvt

So I'm using the base16 colourset in my Xresources and something really strange seems to be happening. The colours being used by vim to perform syntax highlighting are just wrong. As in, there are colours being used that aren't even specified in my Xresources file.
Periodically, like 1 out of 50 calls to vim they will look "correct".
$TERM is rxvt-unicode-256colors
Nothing to do with colours or colour schemes in my .vimrc.
Can anyone tell me what's going on here?
EDIT: I should add that the colours look strange for commands like ls as well.
Last edited by Vixus (2012-11-05 15:43:23)

doug piston wrote:Well to my knowledge (Someone correct me if I am wrong), Vim doesn't look at your .Xresources by default. You can make it do such a thing but using the a colorscheme is still a better option. Just install the colorscheme, I do not see why you don't want to...
Sorry, I may not have explained clearly, but I did try and install the base16 colorscheme for vim, following all the steps that the author provided. However there were some steps involving running bash scripts that just didn't work, most likely why the colorscheme didn't work.
Thanoulis wrote:1) Vim always uses a colorscheme, even if not present in .vimrc. In that case it uses :colorscheme default.
This I did not know. Thanks for telling me. In that case I guess there are bugs in the base16 colourscheme for vim (as a lot of comments on the repository seem to suggest).
2) In Xresources, we define the terminal's color palette, not vim's colorscheme. My guess is that you use a different color palette for urxvt and xterm (hence the differences in vim colors)
I don't, since I only have one Xresources file that presumably applies to both terminal emulators.
3) The weird looks from your ssh session, is because in the host machine there is not a valid terminfo file. Usually its fixed by installing the same type of terminal emulator in both machines.
Ugh, really? I never thought that was necessary... can I fake this in any way? I don't have sudo access to any of the work machines I ssh into.
If you really like the base 16 colors in vim, try :colorscheme peachpuff (it's the one i use, and comes with vim).
Thanks, this worked a treat!

How to permanently save the color settings in terminal.app

Hi,
I have configured the "ls" command in the terminal.app to give colored outputs. However, I realised that for some reason the color-set used is designed for a light-colored background. When I use "white on black", the default blue color of the directories is almost invisible.
Of course, I can change this to another color, but this problem is true for all "blue" fonts, so for example, the default color for comments in vim is also blue and thus unreadable with black background.
This is not a problem when I use the xterm in X11. The color set there is much lighter and is perfect for a black backgound.
By drag-and-drop method (drag the chosen color on top of the directory texts in terminal), I am able to alter the blue color to a much lighter version. This apparently changes all fonts that is blue (this includes for example vim comments), and is exactly what I wanted. But I cannot figure out a way to save this as default. Clicking "Save setting as default" button in the inspector does nothing, the new terminal window still gives you this dark blue.
Anyone know how do I do this?
Cheers,
Lianheng

Hi Nils,
Thanks for the replies.
I think I see what the problem is: basically the colors in the terminal are darker than that of the xterm in X11. This can be clearly seen from the vim. May be this is to do with the fact that apple terminal.app has a "better" color support?
I quite like the default LSCOLORS settings, which is:
LSCOLORS=exfxcxdxcxegedabagacad
The color settings in X11 is just perfect for me at the moment. It would be so much nicer if I can make the color scheme in terminal.app look like that of the X11. If say, I change LSCOLORS to
LSCOLORS=gxfxcxdxcxegedabagacad
and change the color schemes in vim to a lighter theme, but this will effect the colors in X11 too, which is perfect now. Cyan will look too light in X11.
At the first I thought by drag and dropping the colors into terminal it will alter its color map. So my question was actually how can one (if it is possible) change the color map of the terminal.app, so that it inteprets the ANSI "blue" slightly differently.
By the way, the way that you can see all colors in vim is really neat! Thanks for that tip.
Cheers,
Lianheng

Opinions on gVim as opposed to just Vim

I'm finally going to learn Vim, and I will have gVim on my system for a graphical text editor to launch out of pcmanfm. I'm just curious whether any of you feel that there's some advantage to using, or at least learning out of, gVim over Vim.

Dusty wrote:
On topic, by accident; I use vim and gvim pretty much interchangably. tabbing works nicer in gvim. If I'm in a console I type vim cause its shorter (or :edit by mistake often enough that I aliased it to vim). I have my console and my gvim both set to use the zenburn theme, so they look pretty much the same.
gvim looks a bit more modern but on ssh and screen vim is cooler. I'd say use gvim when you can and use vim when its more convenient.
Dusty
I use oceanblack in both but colors are not the same, they are pretty different indeed. I tried zenburn also. In both I type <esc>:color zenburn but only in gvim I have better results.
Maybe I'm missing something. I use Sakura terminal and vim has few colors. Maybe I should use something else for TERM variable....at the moment I have TERM=xterm.
Could you please tell me how did you obtained same colors for vim and gvim?
===EDIT=================================================================================
Kristoffer Stensbo-Smidt wrote:
> I have just made a full install of vim 7.0 and gvim using the package
> manager in Debian. My problem is that the syntax highlighting works very
> badly in the terminal version of vim – if it works at all.
> When I try ':colo desert' it changes only the color of the text (but not
> even to the correct colors) and not the background. When I try ':colo
> chela_light' nothing happens at all. Both of these color schemes work
> perfectly in gvim. Any ideas on how to get this working in the terminal?
> Best regards,
> Kristoffer Stensbo-Smidt
Are you using default terminal colors (light grey on black) or are you using
some "xterm color scheme" outside of Vim? If you are, Vim is not necessarily
aware of it.
What happens if you log in on a text console (Ctrl-Alt-F2 then repli to the
login prompt with username & password) and start Vim there? Can you set
colorschemes properly?
Use ":view $VIM/vimfiles/colors/chela_light_vim" or ":view
~/.vim/colors/chela_light.vim" (depending on where that color scheme is
located -- it should NOT be under $VIMRUNTIME because it wasn't distributed
with Vim and any upgrade can silently change or remove anything in the
$VIMRUNTIME tree). Does it include "cterm/ctermfg/ctermbg" clauses in its
":hi" statements? If not, it's a GUI-only colorscheme.
Similarly with ":view $VIMRUNTIME/colors/desert".
The settings for console Vim in a color terminal (cterm= ctermbg= ctermfg= )
are not necessarily the same as for gvim (gui= guibg= guifg= ) because a color
terminal typically has 8 background and 16 foreground colors, whereas the GUI
typically has 16,777,216 of each kind.
Best regards,
Tony.
source:http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/ … 8a58ec9a9e
This explains all. You have to use a colorscheme made for both, gvim and vim.
I tried zellner scheme with white background in sakura virtual terminal and the colors are matching.
If your virtual terminal supports 256 colors you can set in vim: set t_Co=256 for better results.
Pity that oceanblack scheme is just for gvim.
Well, will just continue using gvim.
Last edited by ArchArael (2008-08-30 11:35:30)

How to get some color for urxvt

What I'm looking for is to make my urxvt look like it does in this screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/UgH2tJ3.jpg
I've been messing with my ~/.Xdefaults, but that didn't change anything. I'm using rxvt-unicode-pixbuf from the AUR in case that matters.

Perhaps slithery should have said most programs have color support. You just need to configure the ones you want to use. The terminal just shows what the running program tells it to show. If you want color in vim, you'd set up color in vim. If you want color in mutt, you'd set up color in mutt. Etc.
The terminal has to be capable of showing colors, but yours is. Just because the terminal is capable, though, you still have to use programs that output color.
ls is commonly (and by default in arch) aliased to "ls --colors" which will use the dircolors settings to highlight different filetypes in different colors when you run `ls` commands.
Grep has a similar color setting.
Pacman has color settings.
Most text editors have color settings.
See a pattern?

Tweak vims syntax highlighting

here is a little tutorial for making your own s-h theme for vim,
if you're using gvim you can skip the part about terminals,
for terminal users you must first set your prefered terminal colours in .Xdefaults ,
eg for urxvt:
urxvt*scrollColor: #111111
urxvt*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=13
urxvt*scrollBar_floating: false
urxvt*scrollstyle: urxvt
urxvt*saveLines: 1000
urxvt*foreground: #eeeeee
urxvt*background: #000000
! black
urxvt*color0: #000000
urxvt*color8: #444444
! red
urxvt*color1: #b21818
urxvt*color9: #ee9090
! green
urxvt*color2: #18b218
urxvt*color10: #54ee54
! yellow
urxvt*color3: #968a38
urxvt*color11: #eeee77
! blue
urxvt*color4: #1818b2
urxvt*color12: #9090ee
! magenta
urxvt*color5: #963c59
urxvt*color13: #cf9ebe
! cyan
urxvt*color6: #418179
urxvt*color14: #71bebe
! white
urxvt*color7: #aaaaaa
urxvt*color15: #eeeeee
then you save this example file as ~/.vim/colors/xerxes.vim
" local syntax file - set colors on a per-machine basis:
hi clear
set background=dark
if exists("syntax_on")
syntax reset
endif
let g:colors_name = "xerxes"
hi Normal guifg=white guibg=black
hi Scrollbar guifg=darkcyan guibg=cyan
hi Menu guifg=black guibg=cyan
hi SpecialKey term=bold cterm=bold ctermfg=2 guifg=Blue
hi NonText term=bold cterm=bold ctermfg=darkred gui=bold guifg=Blue
hi Directory term=bold cterm=bold ctermfg=brown guifg=Blue
hi ErrorMsg term=standout cterm=bold ctermfg=grey ctermbg=blue guifg=White guibg=Red
hi Search term=reverse ctermfg=white ctermbg=red guifg=white guibg=Red
hi MoreMsg term=bold cterm=bold ctermfg=darkgreen gui=bold guifg=SeaGreen
hi ModeMsg term=bold cterm=bold gui=bold guifg=White guibg=Blue
hi LineNr term=underline cterm=bold ctermfg=darkcyan guifg=Yellow
hi Question term=standout cterm=bold ctermfg=darkgreen gui=bold guifg=Green
hi StatusLine term=bold,reverse cterm=bold ctermfg=4 ctermbg=15 gui=bold guifg=blue guibg=white
hi StatusLineNC term=reverse ctermfg=white ctermbg=lightblue guifg=white guibg=blue
hi Title term=bold cterm=bold ctermfg=darkmagenta gui=bold guifg=Magenta
hi Visual term=reverse cterm=reverse gui=reverse
hi WarningMsg term=standout cterm=bold ctermfg=red guifg=Red
hi Cursor guifg=bg guibg=Green
hi Comment term=bold ctermfg=6 guifg=#80a0ff
hi Constant term=underline ctermfg=9 guifg=#ffa0a0
hi Special term=bold ctermfg=1 guifg=Orange
hi Identifier term=underline ctermfg=14 guifg=#40ffff
hi Statement term=bold cterm=bold ctermfg=11 gui=bold guifg=#ffff60
hi PreProc term=underline ctermfg=5 guifg=#ff80ff
hi Type term=underline cterm=bold ctermfg=lightgreen gui=bold guifg=#60ff60
hi Error term=reverse ctermfg=darkcyan ctermbg=black guifg=Red guibg=Black
hi Todo term=standout ctermfg=black ctermbg=darkcyan guifg=Blue guibg=Yellow
hi link IncSearch Visual
hi link String Constant
hi link Character Constant
hi link Number Constant
hi link Boolean Constant
hi link Float Number
hi link Function Identifier
hi link Conditional Statement
hi link Repeat Statement
hi link Label Statement
hi link Operator Statement
hi link Keyword Statement
hi link Exception Statement
hi link Include PreProc
hi link Define PreProc
hi link Macro PreProc
hi link PreCondit PreProc
hi link StorageClass Type
hi link Structure Type
hi link Typedef Type
hi link Tag Special
hi link SpecialChar Special
hi link Delimiter Special
hi link SpecialComment Special
hi link Debug Special
now you can start tweaking the theme, use the numbers in .Xdefaults as your prefered colours in the "ctermfg" and "ctermbg" commands,
now you can use the "colorscheme" command in vim to enable it,
colorscheme xerxes

hello iphitus,
i've edited the first post and if you use that .Xdefaults the following scheme should give you something close to desert,
" Vim color file
set background=dark
if version > 580
" no guarantees for version 5.8 and below, but this makes it stop
" complaining
hi clear
if exists("syntax_on")
syntax reset
endif
endif
let g:colors_name="desert"
hi Normal guifg=White guibg=grey20
" highlight groups
hi Cursor guibg=khaki guifg=slategrey
"hi CursorIM
"hi Directory
"hi DiffAdd
"hi DiffChange
"hi DiffDelete
"hi DiffText
"hi ErrorMsg
hi VertSplit guibg=#c2bfa5 guifg=grey50 gui=none
hi Folded guibg=grey30 guifg=gold
hi FoldColumn guibg=grey30 guifg=tan
hi IncSearch guifg=slategrey guibg=khaki
"hi LineNr
hi ModeMsg guifg=goldenrod
hi MoreMsg guifg=SeaGreen
hi NonText guifg=LightBlue guibg=grey30
hi Question guifg=springgreen
hi Search guibg=peru guifg=wheat
hi SpecialKey guifg=yellowgreen
hi StatusLine guibg=#c2bfa5 guifg=black gui=none
hi StatusLineNC guibg=#c2bfa5 guifg=grey50 gui=none
hi Title guifg=indianred
hi Visual gui=none guifg=khaki guibg=olivedrab
"hi VisualNOS
hi WarningMsg guifg=salmon
"hi WildMenu
"hi Menu
"hi Scrollbar
"hi Tooltip
" syntax highlighting groups
hi Comment guifg=SkyBlue
hi Constant guifg=#ffa0a0
hi Identifier guifg=palegreen
hi Statement guifg=khaki
hi PreProc guifg=indianred
hi Type guifg=darkkhaki
hi Special guifg=navajowhite
"hi Underlined
hi Ignore guifg=grey40
"hi Error
hi Todo guifg=orangered guibg=yellow2
" color terminal definitions
hi SpecialKey ctermfg=darkgreen
hi NonText cterm=bold ctermfg=darkblue
hi Directory ctermfg=darkcyan
hi ErrorMsg cterm=bold ctermfg=7 ctermbg=1
hi IncSearch cterm=NONE ctermfg=yellow ctermbg=green
hi Search cterm=NONE ctermfg=grey ctermbg=blue
hi MoreMsg ctermfg=darkgreen
hi ModeMsg cterm=NONE ctermfg=brown
hi LineNr ctermfg=3
hi Question ctermfg=green
hi StatusLine cterm=bold,reverse
hi StatusLineNC cterm=reverse
hi VertSplit cterm=reverse
hi Title ctermfg=5
hi Visual cterm=reverse
hi VisualNOS cterm=bold,underline
hi WarningMsg ctermfg=1
hi WildMenu ctermfg=0 ctermbg=3
hi Folded ctermfg=darkgrey ctermbg=NONE
hi FoldColumn ctermfg=darkgrey ctermbg=NONE
hi DiffAdd ctermbg=4
hi DiffChange ctermbg=5
hi DiffDelete cterm=bold ctermfg=4 ctermbg=6
hi DiffText cterm=bold ctermbg=1
hi Comment ctermfg=12
hi Constant ctermfg=9
hi Special ctermfg=5
hi Identifier ctermfg=10
hi Statement cterm=bold ctermfg=11
hi PreProc ctermfg=1
hi Type ctermfg=2
hi Underlined cterm=underline ctermfg=5
hi Ignore cterm=bold ctermfg=7
hi Ignore ctermfg=darkgrey
hi Error cterm=bold ctermfg=7 ctermbg=1

[Solved]vim colorschemes not working

Vim colorschemes are not working.When I set a colorscheme with ":color name" colors change just a bit but it don't get nothing even near the theme preview.
I'm using rxvt with zsh.I already tested urxvt colors with a perl script,they're working fine.
Sorry for my bad english and for being such a fucking newbie.
Last edited by instinct (2013-03-13 21:17:32)

I recommend firstly to define all your terminal colors in your ~/.Xdefaults accordingly. Here's a sample from my own ~/.Xdefaults - I'm using urxvt terminal with standard terminal colors:
URxvt.background: rgb:00/00/00
URxvt.foreground: rgb:c2/c2/c2
*color0: rgb:00/00/00
*color1: rgb:a8/00/00
*color2: rgb:00/a8/00
*color3: rgb:a8/54/00
*color4: rgb:00/00/a8
*color5: rgb:a8/00/a8
*color6: rgb:00/a8/a8
*color7: rgb:42/42/42
*color8: rgb:00/00/00
*color9: rgb:f8/54/50
*color10: rgb:50/fc/50
*color11: rgb:f8/fc/50
*color12: rgb:50/54/f8
*color13: rgb:f8/54/f8
*color14: rgb:50/fc/f8
*color15: rgb:f8/fc/f8
You can test your terminal colors with a color script found here.
After that you should set up vim. Start with ~/.vimrc and ~/.vim/colors/yourcolor_scheme.vim.
In ~/.vimrc you should have
set t_Co=256
syntax on
And then you can find yourself a colorscheme that fits you. Now here's the tricky part: the colors in here are defined for terminals (cterm colors) and for gvim (gui colors). I find it hard to get the desired colors using cterm colors, so I am using a script that converts guicolors to the equivalent terminal colors - its called guicolorscheme. After you download the script, put it in ~/.vim/plugin, and add this to the bottom of your ~/.vimrc:
if (&t_Co == 256 || &t_Co == 88) && !has('gui_running') &&
\ filereadable(expand("$HOME/.vim/plugin/guicolorscheme.vim"))
" Use the guicolorscheme plugin to makes 256-color or 88-color
" terminal use GUI colors rather than cterm colors.
runtime! plugin/guicolorscheme.vim
GuiColorScheme hax
else
" For 8-color 16-color terminals or for gvim, just use the
" regular :colorscheme command.
colorscheme default
endif
I have thinkered with my own colorscheme here to get some nice colors, so you are free to use that one, and remember to put it in ~/.vim/colors/.
Last edited by roygbiv (2011-06-07 10:53:06)

[SOLVED] Emacs Configuration

I wanted to set my Emacs theme the default Emacs theme. So, I removed the line on my init.el that changed the theme. I reopened Emacs and my background was dark (gray), instead of Emacs's default white. Very strange, I thought. After lots of attempts to fix it, I ended up removing .emacs.d/, and completely uninstalling emacs, which removed /usr/share/emacs too. Total wipe out.
~> locate emacs
/etc/speech-dispatcher/clients/emacs.conf
/home/david/.emacs-places
/home/david/.emacs.d
/home/david/.emacs.e
/home/david/config_emacs.zip
/home/david/.config/hexchat/scrollback/FreeNode/#emacs.txt
/home/david/.emacs.e/.git
/home/david/.emacs.e/.gitignore
/home/david/.emacs.e/README
/home/david/.emacs.e/ac-comphist.dat
/home/david/.emacs.e/ac-dict
/home/david/.emacs.e/auto-complete-config.el
/home/david/.emacs.e/auto-complete-config.elc
/home/david/.emacs.e/auto-complete.el
/home/david/.emacs.e/auto-complete.elc
/home/david/.emacs.e/auto-save-list
/home/david/.emacs.e/fixme-mode.el
/home/david/.emacs.e/init.el
/home/david/.emacs.e/lua-mode.el
/home/david/.emacs.e/popup.el
/home/david/.emacs.e/popup.elc
/home/david/.emacs.e/redo+.el
/home/david/.emacs.e/session.1023209c8141597e4134217547192611600000006250032
/home/david/.emacs.e/tq.el
/home/david/.emacs.e/tramp
/home/david/.emacs.e/vala-mode.el
/home/david/.emacs.e/ac-dict/c++-mode
/home/david/.emacs.e/ac-dict/c-mode
/home/david/.emacs.e/ac-dict/clojure-mode
/home/david/.emacs.e/ac-dict/css-mode
/home/david/.emacs.e/ac-dict/java-mode
/home/david/.emacs.e/ac-dict/javascript-mode
/home/david/.emacs.e/ac-dict/php-mode
/home/david/.emacs.e/ac-dict/python-mode
/home/david/.emacs.e/ac-dict/ruby-mode
/home/david/.emacs.e/ac-dict/scheme-mode
/home/david/.emacs.e/ac-dict/tcl-mode
/home/david/.emacs.e/auto-save-list/.saves-11111-davidarch~
/home/david/.emacs.e/auto-save-list/.saves-11933-davidarch~
/home/david/.emacs.e/auto-save-list/.saves-13866-davidarch~
/home/david/.emacs.e/auto-save-list/.saves-16864-davidarch~
/home/david/.emacs.e/auto-save-list/.saves-1935-davidarch~
/home/david/.emacs.e/auto-save-list/.saves-3635-davidarch~
/home/david/.emacs.e/auto-save-list/.saves-4124-davidarch~
/home/david/.emacs.e/auto-save-list/.saves-752-davidarch~
/home/david/.emacs.e/auto-save-list/.saves-8016-davidarch~
/home/david/.emacs.e/auto-save-list/.saves-9367-davidarch~
/home/david/.local/share/Trash/files/vim_emacs.png.png
/home/david/.local/share/Trash/info/vim_emacs.png.png.trashinfo
/home/david/Downloads/emacs_resize.png
/home/david/Downloads/CodeMirror-2.3/demo/emacs.html
/home/david/Downloads/CodeMirror-2.3/keymap/emacs.js
/home/david/src/.metadata/.plugins/com.python.pydev.analysis/python_v1_3tswbhuj9gc4kibexhrzgzdx/v1_indexcache/ropemacs.__init___eztp.v1_indexcache
/opt/komodoedit/lib/mozilla/chrome/komododoc/locale/en-US/emacskeybind.html
/usr/include/evolution-3.4/e-util/e-text-event-processor-emacs-like.h
/usr/lib/erlang/lib/tools-2.6.7/emacs
/usr/lib/erlang/lib/tools-2.6.7/emacs/README
/usr/lib/erlang/lib/tools-2.6.7/emacs/erlang-eunit.el
/usr/lib/erlang/lib/tools-2.6.7/emacs/erlang-flymake.el
/usr/lib/erlang/lib/tools-2.6.7/emacs/erlang-skels-old.el
/usr/lib/erlang/lib/tools-2.6.7/emacs/erlang-skels.el
/usr/lib/erlang/lib/tools-2.6.7/emacs/erlang-start.el
/usr/lib/erlang/lib/tools-2.6.7/emacs/erlang.el
/usr/lib/erlang/lib/tools-2.6.7/emacs/erlang_appwiz.el
/usr/lib/erlang/lib/tools-2.6.7/emacs/test.erl.indented
/usr/lib/erlang/lib/tools-2.6.7/emacs/test.erl.orig
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/tools/Editra/src/extern/pygments/styles/emacs.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/tools/Editra/src/extern/pygments/styles/emacs.pyc
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/x86_64-linux/enc/emacs_mule.so
/usr/share/fish/completions/emacs.fish
/usr/share/gettext/styles/po-emacs-x.css
/usr/share/gettext/styles/po-emacs-xterm.css
/usr/share/gettext/styles/po-emacs-xterm16.css
/usr/share/gettext/styles/po-emacs-xterm256.css
/usr/share/git/emacs
/usr/share/git/emacs/.gitignore
/usr/share/git/emacs/Makefile
/usr/share/git/emacs/README
/usr/share/git/emacs/git-blame.el
/usr/share/git/emacs/git-blame.elc
/usr/share/git/emacs/git.el
/usr/share/git/emacs/git.elc
/usr/share/gnome/help/anjuta-manual/C/language-support-cpp-modelines-emacs.page
/usr/share/gnome/help/anjuta-manual/cs/language-support-cpp-modelines-emacs.page
/usr/share/gnome/help/anjuta-manual/da/language-support-cpp-modelines-emacs.page
/usr/share/gnome/help/anjuta-manual/de/language-support-cpp-modelines-emacs.page
/usr/share/gnome/help/anjuta-manual/el/language-support-cpp-modelines-emacs.page
/usr/share/gnome/help/anjuta-manual/es/language-support-cpp-modelines-emacs.page
/usr/share/gnome/help/anjuta-manual/eu/language-support-cpp-modelines-emacs.page
/usr/share/gnome/help/anjuta-manual/fr/language-support-cpp-modelines-emacs.page
/usr/share/gnome/help/anjuta-manual/gl/language-support-cpp-modelines-emacs.page
/usr/share/gnome/help/anjuta-manual/ja/language-support-cpp-modelines-emacs.page
/usr/share/gnome/help/anjuta-manual/oc/language-support-cpp-modelines-emacs.page
/usr/share/gnome/help/anjuta-manual/pt_BR/language-support-cpp-modelines-emacs.page
/usr/share/gnome/help/anjuta-manual/sl/language-support-cpp-modelines-emacs.page
/usr/share/gnome/help/anjuta-manual/sv/language-support-cpp-modelines-emacs.page
/usr/share/gnome/help/anjuta-manual/th/language-support-cpp-modelines-emacs.page
/usr/share/gnome/help/anjuta-manual/uk/language-support-cpp-modelines-emacs.page
/usr/share/gnome/help/anjuta-manual/zh_CN/language-support-cpp-modelines-emacs.page
/usr/share/go/misc/emacs
/usr/share/go/misc/emacs/go-mode-load.el
/usr/share/go/misc/emacs/go-mode.el
/usr/share/gtkhtml-4.0/keybindingsrc.emacs
/usr/share/guile/1.8/ice-9/emacs.scm
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/16/emacs.png
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/16/emacs23.png
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/22/emacs.png
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/22/emacs23.png
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/24/emacs.png
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/24/emacs23.png
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/32/emacs.png
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/32/emacs23.png
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/48/emacs.png
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/48/emacs23.png
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/64/emacs.png
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/64/emacs23.png
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/96/emacs.png
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/96/emacs23.png
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/scalable/emacs.svg
/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/scalable/emacs23.svg
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/emacs.map.gz
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/emacs2.map.gz
/usr/share/mime/text/x-emacs-lisp.xml
/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-emacs.png
/usr/share/speech-dispatcher/conf/clients/emacs.conf
/usr/share/vim/vim73/colors/xemacs.vim
That's "locate emacs". ~/.emacs.e/ is just a backup for ~/.emacs.d/, nothing is being loaded from .emacs.e, I'm sure.
Either way, "pacman -R emacs" followed by "pacman -S emacs", and the background is still dark:
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I have no idea of what to do. I spent a few hours on this already, it's frustrating me quite a lot.
Any ideas? Thank you so much.
Last edited by ephan (2012-08-15 18:48:43)

x-rix wrote:
Are you getting any strange output if you are invoking emacs via command line?
Also, what DE/WM are you using? I've had some funny colours in emacs and KDE in the past (that was the old KDE, though).
(Btw, why pacman -R and not pacman -Rs?)
Actually, Emacs isn't outputting a single character to terminal. I am using Openbox, and also tried Awesome WM, it worked the same.
(I didn't know of -Rs, thank you )

[solved] Vim: console and urxvt have different colors

Well, as you can see, vim in console (vc/1) and in urxvt has different colors:
I'd like to have the same colors of console in urxvt (and not the opposite), is there a way?
I don't know from where the colors of urxvt come from. That blue with which is written '#include' and that green/cyan with which is written 'int' aren't even in my .Xdefaults.
TIA
Last edited by andre.ramaciotti (2009-03-08 12:17:16)

andre.ramaciotti wrote:Is there a way to trick vim so it thinks that urxvt is only 16-colours capable? A $parameter or an option I can set in .vimrc?
set t_Co=16

TTY colors problem (only 8 @ vim + weird behaviour after x started)

Hi,
I've got a problem with my tty colors. Everything seems to work pretty ok, but I have two weird problems - one is that vim doesn't display colors properly. It seems like it supports only colors 0-7, no more. My vim scheme & zshrc (dunno if helpful) attached below:
scheme: mustangzill4.vim
zshrc: .zshrc
What's more, when I start X, tty colors seem to become totally messed up. I don't know where are those new color settings taken from, but they're changed somehow and stay like that till next reboot.
Any help/tip appreciated. Thanks in advance.
edit: I know that "2xx" colors won't work in linux terminal since it supports only 16colors, but even 16 colors don't work for me under vim.
Last edited by muchzill4 (2010-01-24 21:00:25)

I just set up vim and my terminal (urxvt-256 via .Xdefaults) and I'm experiencing this. When I start X, TTY2 picks up a grey background. Just curious about how this configuration should affect a console...
EDIT:
Apparently this is less reproducible for me than I thought. After a system upgrade and subsequent reboot, this didn't happen again. Maybe the console liked vim's colors and decided to hold on for a while.
Last edited by nsoodak (2010-02-03 04:52:53)

Vim color glitch using Xterm

Hello,
I recently started to use Xterm rather than urxvt, and there's a weird glitch when using vim. I have cursorline enabled, so the background of the cursor line is a different color from the regular background, and I used this config in urxvt and termite and it works properly. However, in Xterm, when I scroll down, the cursor line leaves a "trace" on the background where there is no text.
http://i.imgur.com/9CO522D.png
This is a screenshot of the issue I'm having, and I am using vim to edit my colorscheme file, urxvt is on the left and xterm is on the right. As I said, this colorscheme gave me no problems on urxvt and termite, but in case I'm missing something I thought I might as well show it.
Also, the comments in the colorscheme file shouldn't have a separate background either, and they don't in urxvt, and there shouldn't be yellow highlighting on '=dar' at the top of the colorscheme file. I don't understand why there can be so many differences from terminal to terminal.
Can anyone help me fix this?
Thanks,
wadawalnut
-- mod edit: read the Forum Etiquette and only post thumbnails http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/For … s_and_Code [jwr] --

Does the problem occur with other vim colorschemes? Perhaps we can eliminate the colorscheme and any .vimrc configurations or plugins as the source of the problem.
You can create a very basic .vimrc file, perhaps naming it basic.vim
set nocompatible
filetype plugin on
set t_Co=256
syntax on
Start vim using basic.vim instead of your .vimrc:
$ vim -u basic.vim <file_to_edit>
Vim should open with the default colorscheme. Then add cursorline highlighting and see if the problem exists.
:se cul
If the graphical glitch is there, you've pretty much eliminated your .vimrc as the source of the problem. If the "tracing" problem isn't there, change to a colorscheme where you know it has previously occurred.
:colo <my_colorscheme>
Try editing different filetypes to make sure the problem isn't a filetype or syntax plugin.
Edit: Ctrl+l, (Control plus lowercase L) should refresh the screen in vim.
Last edited by thisoldman (2015-03-08 18:47:05)

[SOLVED] vim can't use colorscheme from ~/.vim/colors

Hello
I wanted to use the Molokai Theme for vim. So I downloaded molokai.vim from http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2340 Copied it to ~/.vim/colors folder. In vim I enter :colorscheme molokai.vim but it can't find it.
Also install molokai-vim from AUR but still. E185: Cannot find color scheme 'molokai.vim'
Any thoughts?
Last edited by blackout23 (2013-04-01 08:15:38)

I'm sure I tried it with and without extension and it didn't work.
However after creating a .vimrc (didn't have one before) according to this:
http://dthettich.tumblr.com/post/131989 … rc-molokai
It worked.
@WonderWoofy
The AUR package installed it into that directory.
Thanks to all!

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