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regnskog

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From: Stockholm, Sweden

Registered: 2006-08-06

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Messed up gvim colorscheme

Hello all!
I absolutely hate the standard colorscheme for gvim, so I decided to change it. I now use 'desert' and I really like it. The problem is that I have to select it manually every time! My .vimrc looks like this:

colorscheme desert

and I believe the font colors are all set up correctly, but it seems the background color is too bright! Please give advice

rson451

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From: Annapolis, MD USA

Registered: 2007-04-15

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Re: Messed up gvim colorscheme

maybe "set background=dark" will suit?

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regnskog

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From: Stockholm, Sweden

Registered: 2006-08-06

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Re: Messed up gvim colorscheme

Thanks but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. It works when I type it out manually but when I put it into .vimrc it seems something else writes it over. Is there some kind of .gvimrc I don't know about?

rson451

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Re: Messed up gvim colorscheme

yes there is a gvimrc, you can try putting your options in there but afaik gvim reads your .vimrc as well.  i've not used gvim so that's about all i know.

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tami

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From: Norway, Oslo

Registered: 2007-11-10

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Re: Messed up gvim colorscheme

Try this:

ln -s .vimrc .gvimrc

and make sure that your color scheme is working both in vim and gvim - currently I use:

colorscheme darkspectrum

This is what works for me - in vim as well as in vim.

Best regards,

tami

Last edited by tami (2008-05-18 21:40:10)

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droog

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Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 877

Re: Messed up gvim colorscheme

To get colorschemes working right on mine i had to comment out these lines on the bottom of ~/.gvimrc.

"  highlight Normal guibg=grey90
"  highlight Cursor guibg=Green guifg=NONE
"  highlight lCursor guibg=Cyan guifg=NONE
"  highlight NonText guibg=grey80
"  highlight Constant gui=NONE guibg=grey95
"  highlight Special gui=NONE guibg=grey95

regnskog

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From: Stockholm, Sweden

Registered: 2006-08-06

Posts: 17

Re: Messed up gvim colorscheme

Awesome! Now it works! tamis suggestion seemed simple enough so I tried it first and it did the job thanks to everyone else who wanted to help as well

tami

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From: Norway, Oslo

Registered: 2007-11-10

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Re: Messed up gvim colorscheme

I'm glad to be of a little help
Wishing you nice time (also in gvim!),
tami

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