Better colors so comments aren't dark blue in Vim?
Mostly I edit Ruby files, although shell script file comments are also #
Currently my comments show as dark blue on black which is really hard to read.
See screenshot.
How can I change their color?
I’m willing to consider different schemas for all colors though I do like the black background as a base.
There are many color schemes which are usually distributed together with vim. You can select them with the :color command.
You can see the available color schemes in vim’s colors folder, for example in my case:
$ ls /usr/share/vim/vimNN/colors/ # where vimNN is vim version, e.g. vim74
blue.vim darkblue.vim default.vim delek.vim desert.vim elflord.vim
evening.vim koehler.vim morning.vim murphy.vim pablo.vim peachpuff.vim
README.txt ron.vim shine.vim slate.vim torte.vim zellner.vim
I usually use desert. So I open vim, then enter :color desert and enter. To have the color scheme by default every time you open vim, add :color desert into your ~/.vimrc.
(Michael, OP) This was good. The terminal looks like:
One option I found was in terminal preferences (top menu, not the window).
This has profile preferences and then a color tab, e.g.
Changing the Palette entry 5 from Dark blue to Light Lilac helped. I finally chose xterm as the color scheme and lightened up the comment color e.g.
You can do it manually with this command:
:hi Comment guifg=#ABCDEF
Where ABCDEF is an appropriate color hex code.
To make it permanent, you will need to add these lines to your ~/.vimrc file (using green as an example):
syntax on
:highlight Comment ctermfg=green
As you are using a dark background in your terminal, you simply need to set
:set background=dark
instead of the default
:set background=light
The colors are then automatically correctly set.
If you want to have this permanently, add the line
set background=dark
to your $HOME/.vimrc file.
I had precisely this problem a little while ago, the solution is to place the following line in your vimrc file:
set t_Co=256
And then you might have to put the following at the end of your your ~/.profile:
#set vim terminal to 256 colors.
if [ -e /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-256color ]; then
export TERM='xterm-256color'
else
export TERM='xterm-color'
fi
and then you can set:
hi Comment ctermfg=lightblue
in your vimrc file and then you will have light blue comments.
vimrc 256: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/256_colors_in_vim
I also noticed the screen became somewhat prettier by setting it to 256.
If on a dark background in Debian, then uncommenting set background=dark in /etc/vim/vimrc helps, too.
Or, if you don’t want to interfere with the package’s config file, rather in (a new)
/etc/vim/vimrc.local
You can generate your own gvim colors and paste them into your vimrc.
Using chrome http://www.hmi-tech.in/activities/gvim-color-scheme-interactive-generator.html
Here is nice git repo with 700+ colorschemes for vim
https://github.com/flazz/vim-colorschemes
clone it to ~/.vim/
git clone https://github.com/flazz/vim-colorschemes ~/.vim/
Preview schemes in vim with
:colorscheme mrkn256
(replace mrkn256 with one of these names ls ~/.vim/colors (without the .vim extension ))
To set it permanently edit ~/.vimrc add/change
colorscheme mrkn256
Maybe too far off topic but here goes
For Windows 10 WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)
this worked for me (in .vimrc)
syntax on
colorscheme desert "(or whatever color scheme)
:colo desert
I use this command to highlight the comments for example 😉
echo "colorscheme elflord" >> ~/.vimrc
Then re-run.
I like it, light comments.
Create a file on user’s home
root@ip-10-100-4-227:~# vi .vimrc
Enter below syntax in file
syntax on
colorscheme desert
Source File
root@ip-10-100-4-227:~# source .vimrc