[SOLVED] Personalising vim after fresh install

Mig42 · 02-18-2011, 04:45 AM

Hi,

I am having trouble getting my vim settings back after having made a new install of my GNU/Linux distro. I have a copy of my old .vimrc file and a complete recursive directory copy of my old .vim directory.
I have placed the copy of .vimrc and the directory .vim at /home/me/, but I am eg. unable to use my old color files now in /home/me/.vim/colors/

Hints ?

redgoblin · 02-18-2011, 05:29 AM

Are any of the settings from your vimrc taking effect or is it just the colour that's a problem?

Could you post a copy of your vimrc file. You should have a reference to

Code:

colorscheme [name of colorschene]

Mig42 · 02-18-2011, 05:57 AM

Hi again,

it seems that there is only trouble with colours. Other things in my .vimrc like abbreviations do work. I do have the line

Code:

colorscheme zenburn

in my .vimrc but it has no effect and when I do

Code:

:color nameOfScheme

from within .vim I dont get the appropriate results (sometimes depending on what scheme there is change to the colours/highlighting but not the expected ones !)

druuna · 02-18-2011, 06:40 AM

Hi,

You mention a new install, does that also mean you have a newer vim version? If so did you look for and change entries that possibly still point to the old vim version? Example:

/usr/share/vim/vim70/syntax/syntax.vim vs /usr/share/vim/vim73/syntax/syntax.vim

Also, where does runtimepath point to? (:set runtimepath).

Hope this helps.

Mig42 · 02-18-2011, 09:12 AM

:set runtimepath shows

Code:

runtimepath=~/.vim,/var/lib/vim/addons,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles,/usr/share/vim/
vim72,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after,/var/lib/vim/addons/after,~/.vim/after

I am not completely sure, but I think it is still the same major version (7.2) as before i installed a new distro. What files related to vim would be candidates to include in them a hardcoding of the version number ?

Mig42 · 02-18-2011, 09:49 AM

I tried adding a new colour scheme newScheme.vim in /usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/ (added permissions to other for x and r)
and starting vim. The scheme shows up from within vim when toggling using :color, but it has no effect.

druuna · 02-18-2011, 10:11 AM

Hi,

I've just downloaded this zenburn theme and tried it on vi versions 7.0, 7.2 and 7.3 (LFS and Debian) as a normal user and it does not work on my side on Debian.

Ok, this fixed the problem for me: export TERM=xterm-256color.

Weird thing is that LFS has TERM set to xterm and it works, Debian also has it set to xterm and it doesn't work (it does when setting the xterm-256color).

Hope this helps.

Mig42 · 02-18-2011, 11:11 AM

Thanks for the new tip, druuna. It didn't change things, however trying yet another color scheme, vim displayed a message
asking to

Code:

set t_Co=256

in my .vimrc and this made all the colour schemes work.

druuna · 02-18-2011, 11:46 AM

Hi,

I was still interested and just found this, which confirms both our solutions (just noticed you already found the alternative): the The Official Zenburn Page (see the Notes).

Have a nice weekend.