I was wondering if someone could assist me in installing a color scheme for VIM? I literally have spent all day yesterday and this morning trying to figure it out. I am using a shell-client (ubuntu) to access my school's unix server. I will post a link to what I am trying to install and thank you in advance for your assistance:
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You need a Vim plugin manager. Once you have that, color schemes are installed like any other plugin, there isn't anything special about them. – Satō Katsura Jan 19 '17 at 17:10
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1in case you didn't know about: vim.stackexchange.com – Jeff Schaller Jan 19 '17 at 17:11
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The installation instructions in the README.md seems very clear to me:
If you don't use a plugin manager just copy the content of
vim/colors/to~/.vim/colors.
(if you get the repository with git, like I did, the directory to copy from will not lie in a vim directory, but in vim-gotham).
I made a test installation of the color scheme that worked:
$ cd
$ mkdir test
$ cd test
$ git clone git@github.com:whatyouhide/vim-gotham.git
$ mkdir ~/.vim/colors
$ cp vim-gotham/colors/* ~/.vim/colors
If you want the "themes":
$ mkdir ~/.vim/autoload
$ cp -r vim-gotham/autoload/* ~/.vim/autoload
Cleanup:
$ cd
$ rm -rf test
Then I can use the command :colorscheme gotham in Vim (or use colorscheme gotham in my ~/.vimrc file).
Can't say anything about the themes though. I use plain Vim, default everything.
Kusalananda
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