Enabling syntax color highlighting will add colors to the editor when editing in vim, but that's not all as there are actually many color schemes to choose from.
The scheme can be changed by issuing :colorscheme <color> while in vim's command mode. <color> can be rotated and autocompleted by pressing the tab key.
To permanently enable blue colorscheme for example, add the following line to /etc/vim/vimrc or ~/.vimrc
colorscheme blue
p/s: This entry has been eextended here; http://www.techrecipes.net/application/vim/change-color-scheme
3 Comments on this post
Leave a Commentcolours make vim more interesting,
without colour text editing can be so boring
Comment left on 5.18.2008 by piju
Thanks man this has been really useful to me!!!
Comment left on 12.6.2009 by Pablo
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