First thing to do if I’m going to use Vim as my default text editor, is to get the colors looking good.<\/p>\n
First, I’ve downloaed a theme (for example distinguished.vim) and placed it in my newly created Next, I created a Finally, if I type in To fix this error, I’ve edited my Now For those looking for a new Vim color theme, here’s a good place to look<\/a> and another list of 10 good ones via VimNinjas<\/a>.<\/p>\n I must admit though… colors still seem to be a bit wacky for me, as they don’t match the theme examples listed on the web page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First thing to do if I’m going to use Vim as my default text editor, is to get the colors looking good. First, I’ve downloaed a theme (for example distinguished.vim) and placed it in my newly created ~\/.vim\/colors folder. Next, I created a ~\/.vimrc file and entered the following contents: syntax on colorscheme distinguished set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,218,756],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4003,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions\/4003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}~\/.vim\/colors<\/code> folder.<\/p>\n~\/.vimrc<\/code> file and entered the following contents:
\n
\nsyntax on
\ncolorscheme distinguished
\nset t_Co=256
\n<\/code><\/p>\ntput colors<\/code> into a terminal window, it tells me I have 8 colors. Even though my themes still appear to work in Vim, an error gets reported upon opening Vim.<\/p>\n~\/.bashrc<\/code> file and entered the following line.<\/p>\nexport TERM=xterm-256color<\/code><\/p>\ntput colors<\/code> reports 256 colors and Vim no longer reports an error when automatically loading my distinguished.vim<\/code> file.<\/p>\n