How to set syntax highlighting and color scheme in vim
25 Jul 2015Whenever a git merge occurs in any of my repo, Vim opens up for editing commit message. Initially even getting out of Vim was very difficult for me. I was about to change my default editor in git configs. Then I thought of learning how to use Vim, because it will be very useful, when editing files in remote-server using ssh. Yesterday I learned How to set the syntax highlighting and color scheme in Vim.
For enabling syntax highlighting and line numbers, add the following lines to the ~/.vimrc
file, create it if not present.
syntax on
set nu
Now for adding color scheme, you have to download any of the color schemes like distinguished for Vim.
Now extract it and move *.vim
files in colors
directory to ~/.vim/colors/
.
$ mv ~/Downloads/vim-distinguished/colors/*.vim ~/.vim/colors/
Now add the following line to the ~/.vimrc
file
colorscheme distinguished
I assume that syntax on
is already there in it.