Configure vim colors install#

The most common uses to define a series of commands for a function key. Set another way, a mapping allows you to bind a set of Vim commands to a single key. The map command is used to change the behavior of typed keys. So far we've covered the set command and the color scheme command. And so now when you restart Vim you'll see the additional color schemes available to you as an option. Now what you would do is just place the color scheme file in the colors directory. And then on Mac it would be something like, users/jason/.vim/colors. For example, on Linux, it might be something like this, home/jason/.vim/colors. vim directory in your home directory and then a directory under that called colors.

Configure vim colors install#

How you install a custom color scheme is to create a. There are plenty of resources out there, and there are tons of different color schemes to choose from. If you wanna add a custom color scheme just search the internet for Vim color schemes. And if you wanna configure this in your file here you can just do color, colo or color or color scheme, and then specify the name, for example, slate. So I'm just gonna tab over here until I get to slate and then press enter to use that color scheme. The default one is fine for most people really. Just try them out and see which one is your favorite. By the way, you can use colo or color for the shortened version of the color scheme command. You can also see the available color schemes by typing colon, color, space, and then just hitting Control + D. You can configure this with a color scheme command. By default Vim includes several color schemes. So along those lines you can specify a color scheme. Okay, so we were just talking about color and making Vim easy to read.