[Solved]vim colorschemes not working

instinct · 2011-06-06 06:42:53

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)

karol · 2011-06-06 07:08:19

What happens if you switch from light theme to a dark one? Almost no changes at all?
Try with a fresh vim config.

Drexya · 2011-06-06 11:03:07

And il you use 256 colorschemes, try that in your vim config file:

set t_Co=256

Last edited by Drexya (2011-06-06 11:03:24)

Mr.Elendig · 2011-06-06 11:34:51

Don't forget that if the theme uses colour 0-15, how it looks will depend on your termcolours.

instinct · 2011-06-06 17:35:59

Don't forget that if the theme uses colour 0-15, how it looks will depend on your termcolours.

Yeah...that's enlighthening. : |
Hum...problem solved then,cuz I really think that my vim themes beeing very uggly due to my tem colors is not an actual problem... : |
Thanks for everybody for the attention and suport!I really apreciate it!
Again,sorry for my bad english.

anonymous_user · 2011-06-06 19:05:41

You could always try Gvim.

instinct · 2011-06-07 04:07:55

Yeah,but I was kind of looking for something more terminal oriented...
Is it possible to isolate vim colorscheme from my terminal colorscheme?Or at least is there a hack to do so?
If that's not possible,could you guys recommend some cool rxvt + vim colorschemes that blend well together?
Believe it or not,I'm a programmer and I really enjoy nice syntax highlighting.
Nah...problem not solved... : /

bernarcher · 2011-06-07 06:47:56

You are bound to the terminal color capabilities in this case. But you can try a terminal with 256-color capabilities (urxvt should work in this mode, at least my rxvt-unicode from extra does so) which provides a much larger color adaption range.

And keep in mind that most vim color schemes are designed for GVIM nowadays which do not easily scale to terminal colors. Search e.g. the VIM scripts for "256 color terminal" in the "color scheme" type.

Last edited by bernarcher (2011-06-07 06:52:09)

roygbiv · 2011-06-07 10:50:05

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)

instinct · 2011-06-09 03:49:25

Hum...after reading the comments and searching a bit I guess I'll have to stay with gvim.That's no problem at all,it's just a little bit more uncomfortable then vim.
Thank you guys for your amazing support!
Problem solved.

roygbiv · 2011-06-09 08:25:38

instinct wrote:

Hum...after reading the comments and searching a bit I guess I'll have to stay with gvim.That's no problem at all,it's just a little bit more uncomfortable then vim.

Then why not use vim?

Problem solved.

Then please edit your post title with [SOLVED]. Cheers

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