Hi guys - I am kind of tired having to continually mess around with my terminal in order to get the vim colorscheme I am using to work correctly.

As a result, I am thinking of switching to gvim, but I want to function like vim. I just need the color functionality of gvim.

Is there an easy way to tell gvim to act like vim?

If there is not, can someone tell me how I can set gvim to wrap the text like vim does?

For example:

http://i.imgur.com/4FiAO32.png


As you can see, the item labeled 25, written using gvim, is way out of line with the rest of the items.

I am using set tw=79 but that doesn't work.

Thanks!

The vim wiki has a number of articles about how to set and change the vim color scheme:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Se...h&ns0=1&ns14=1

Hello frankbell - thanks for your reply.

It is not vim that's the problem - it is the fact that these terminals do not support the amount of colors that gvim does.

I would rather use gvim but with vim behavior to get the color features.

Do you mean the physical terminal or the virtual one. Either way, if the terminal won't support the colors, I don't think you can make them happen in the software.

I've not used gvim. I keep using vim, hoping that one day I'll get good at it. At this point, I'm barely adequate.

Gvim supports all the options and commands that are supported by Vim, so you can set it up exactly like you would with Vim. In fact, if no .gvimrc exists it even loads the .vimrc instead.

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@TobiSGD

Thanks - you are completely right.

I am not sure why it wasn't loading up that file (or maybe the setting wasn't correct - I don't know; it simply wasn't working as I expected).

gvim does indeed perform like vim now, and I can use the color scheme I wanted!

Thanks.

Now that's a nice bit hint.