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starfry

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From: Surrey, UK

Registered: 2010-08-18

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[SOLVED] how to check current colorscheme in vimrc?

I am trying to write a function in vimrc that behaves differently based on colorscheme but I can't work out how to test the value of :colorscheme in vimrc. I'm trying to do this:

    if (&colorscheme == 'myscheme')
        ...something...
    else
        ...something else...
    endif

But colorscheme is isn't a variable so the usual way of checking &variable doesn't work. Thanks for heping...

Last edited by starfry (2013-01-19 20:12:21)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] how to check current colorscheme in vimrc?

The help page says (correctly) that "color[scheme]" outputs the name of the current color scheme.  That should work in the conditional - or if you want you can set it's output to a variable.

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Vain

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Re: [SOLVED] how to check current colorscheme in vimrc?

Hi,

color schemes will set the variable “g:colors_name“. Thus:

if g:colors_name == 'myscheme'
    ... foo ...
else
    ... bar ...
endif

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starfry

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From: Surrey, UK

Registered: 2010-08-18

Posts: 233

Re: [SOLVED] how to check current colorscheme in vimrc?

Thank you Vain, that is the answer I was looking for. "color[scheme]"  does indeed output the name of the current color scheme but I cound not get it to work in the conditional. Using the g:colors_name variable works a treat. Very much appreciated