vim color schemes only work with sudo
 

Hi, I'm having problems with vim on gnome-terminal (xterm-256color, zsh).
Running $vim file.c, then :colorscheme <something> doesn't work. But with $sudo vim file.c, color schemes work just fine
Putting set t_Co=256, colorscheme <something> in ~/.vimrc doesn't help either. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Make sure your colorscheme is available for the user you are trying to run vim as. It appears, you might have placed the colorscheme file for root (i.e.: usually /root/.vim/colors). If this is the case you can,

1. either copy the colorscheme to ~/.vim/colors/ (i.e.: /home/yourusername/.vim/colors) or
2. copy the colorscheme file to the colors dir where the system wide config files are (Eg: in Fedoras case it's /usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/)

Then set the colorscheme as usual using config files.