Mac Vim Color Scheme



After I’ve shown you Vim and explained the most essential commands, there is is another tip I’ll give to you. As described in the above linked article, Vim brings a really nice syntaxhightlighting implementation with it. Unfortunately, this is by default, depending on the file type and your monitor, difficult to read. So today I want to show you, how you can modify the Vim syntax highlighting scheme.

Set color scheme vim

Change Vim syntaxhightlighting color scheme

I'm working with the Vim 7.2 that comes with Mac OS 10.6.1 (Leopard), using the Mac's 'Terminal' app. I'd like to use a fancy color scheme. For me, that applies to setting a default colorscheme for gvim on Mac OS X. To set your vim default colorscheme to a theme named “slate,” just follow these steps: 1) First, edit a file named /.gvimrc. If it doesn’t already exist, create it.

Mac Vim Color Schemes

Once you’ve opened Vim, you can change the color scheme with the “colo”-command.

As you can see, the color scheme is set off from the command mode. In this case, the command is “colo” followed by a space and the name of the color scheme you want to use. (If you like, you can use “colorscheme” instead of “colo”. “colo” is just a shortcut to “colorscheme”.)

If you want to get a list of the installed color schemes, then just type “colo ” and press Ctrld – so you should get a list of all available schemes.

Vim Color Scheme Maker

Change Vim default color scheme

To change the pre-selected default color scheme in Vim, it must be set up in the Vim config. This config file is called “.vimrc” and can be located in your home directory (~/). You can definde the color scheme in .vimrc as you would do it directly in Vim, with just one differece: leave the “:” at the beginning of the command away. To change the default color scheme to “murphy”, the following steps would be necessary.

In .vimrc you must add the following line or overwrite it (if it already exists).

To save your changes and close the config, type in :wq. Next time you start Vim now, your self-selected color scheme is used.[aawp box=”059652983X,168050262X,1484202511″ grid=”3″ class=”aawp-grid-small”]

Vim Default Color Schemes Vimrc

Iceberg is a well-designed, eye-friendly dark blue color scheme for Vim and Neovim. Each colors are carefully picked for full-colors environment, and it works in 256-colors terminal as well.

  • 256-colors terminal support
  • airline theme and lightline colorscheme
  • Various plugins support: ALE / CtrlP / Denite / Easy Motion / Git Gutter / Signify / Sneak / Startify / Syntastic / vim-plug / etc.
  • Better syntax highlight with: typescript-vim / vim-flow / vim-graphql / vim-javascript / vim-markdown / etc.
  • Vim / Neovim terminal colors support

Preview

Philosophy

Vim Color Schemes Ubuntu

I talked about how to create your lovely color scheme in VimConf 2017, international Vim conference. This slides also explained the philosophy of Iceberg.

Iceberg for macOS

Iceberg is also available for macOS Terminal.app!

Vim Color Schemes List

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