Vimrc versus gvimrc

Question

So I have a perfect working ~/.gvimrc file, which sets all my prefered options and gets my editor of choice set up just right.  I copy this to a ~/.vimrc so that in console mode I get the same effect, and for some reason my color scheme doesn't get applied.  Any ideas why? All I added was the latex plugin for latex, set line numbering, and wrap on, and tried to set a color scheme.  All .vim color schemes are in ~/.vim/colors/.
" An example for a vimrc file.
" Maintainer: Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]>
" Last change: 2006 Nov 16
" To use it, copy it to
" for Unix and OS/2: ~/.vimrc
" for Amiga: s:.vimrc
" for MS-DOS and Win32: $VIM\_vimrc
" for OpenVMS: sys$login:.vimrc
" When started as "evim", evim.vim will already have done these settings.
if v:progname =~? "evim"
finish
endif
" Use Vim settings, rather then Vi settings (much better!).
" This must be first, because it changes other options as a side effect.
set nocompatible
" REQUIRED. This makes vim invoke latex-suite when you open a tex file.
filetype plugin on
" IMPORTANT: win32 users will need to have 'shellslash' set so that latex
" can be called correctly.
set shellslash
" IMPORTANT: grep will sometimes skip displaying the file name if you
" search in a singe file. This will confuse latex-suite. Set your grep
" program to alway generate a file-name.
set grepprg=grep\ -nH\ $*
" OPTIONAL: This enables automatic indentation as you type.
filetype indent on
" allow backspacing over everything in insert mode
set backspace=indent,eol,start
set history=50 " keep 50 lines of command line history
set ruler " show the cursor position all the time
set showcmd " display incomplete commands
set incsearch " do incremental searching
" For Win32 GUI: remove 't' flag from 'guioptions': no tearoff menu entries
" let &guioptions = substitute(&guioptions, "t", "", "g")
" Don't use Ex mode, use Q for formatting
map Q gq
" Switch syntax highlighting on, when the terminal has colors
" Also switch on highlighting the last used search pattern.
if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running")
syntax on
set hlsearch
endif
" Only do this part when compiled with support for autocommands.
if has("autocmd")
" Enable file type detection.
" Use the default filetype settings, so that mail gets 'tw' set to 72,
" 'cindent' is on in C files, etc.
" Also load indent files, to automatically do language-dependent indenting.
filetype plugin indent on
" Put these in an autocmd group, so that we can delete them easily.
augroup vimrcEx
au!
" For all text files set 'textwidth' to 78 characters.
autocmd FileType text setlocal textwidth=78
" When editing a file, always jump to the last known cursor position.
" Don't do it when the position is invalid or when inside an event handler
" (happens when dropping a file on gvim).
autocmd BufReadPost *
\ if line("'\"") > 0 && line("'\"") <= line("$") |
\ exe "normal! g`\"" |
\ endif
augroup END
else
set autoindent " always set autoindenting on
endif " has("autocmd")
filetype plugin on
set grepprg=grep\ -nH\ $*
let g:tex_flavor = "latex"
colorscheme slate2
set nu
set lbr

Answer 1

IIRC vim and Gvim colour schemes do not translate to the same colours.  That is, they are not an exact match. Gvim colour schemes are 256-colour (?) while vim colour schemes are limited to 16-colour by default (using the colours specified in ~/.Xdefaults). Not much help, I know.  I don't spend enough time in Gvim to ever worry about it, but I think it's possible to set them up to match.
Last edited by thayer (2008-10-04 16:18:43)