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jrick

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Registered: 2008-01-16

Posts: 27

(G)VIM not correctly using configuration file

First things first, I'm a VIM newbie, so if what I'm doing is stupid, please forgive.

I like working on dark terminals, and prefer using the "torte" colors in GVIM.  When I type <Esc>:colors torte, than everything works fine.  However, when I add colors torte to my ~/.vimrc, then when restarting GVIM, the colors all change to light colors, but the background stays a light color also instead of changing to black.

I have also tried to add set background=dark in my ~/.vimrc, but nothing seems to help, even when trying to set the dark background without setting the color scheme.

Last edited by jrick (2008-05-09 03:00:45)

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dolby

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Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: (G)VIM not correctly using configuration file

maybe related to http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10303 ?

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jrick

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Registered: 2008-01-16

Posts: 27

Re: (G)VIM not correctly using configuration file

Ah yes, adding it to my ~/.gvimrc fixed the problem.

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