Vim not using colorscheme, Gvim does, why?

Question

I would like to know why my vim is not using my default colorscheme, while gvim does. Here is what I did:

1. Installed Vim 7.3.
2. Installed Gvim Gtk 7.3
3. Created a folder ~/.vim/colors
4. Put my "vitamins.vim" file inside of ~/.vim/colors
5. Created a file called ~/.vimrc

6. Put the following content in ~/.vimrc

    colorscheme vitamins set number set smartindent set tabstop=4 set shiftwidth=4 syntax on set ignorecase set mouse=a set hlsearch` 

The problem is that vim doesn't seem to use any of definitions, but Gvim does! Why? How can I make a definition file for Vim and another for Gvim? I tried to create a file ~/.gvimrc but Gvim didn't seem to use anything from that file.

Answer 1

The vitamins colorscheme contains high-color cterm definitions. You need a terminal that supports and advertises 256 colors.

:set t_Co?

must print 256. If it doesn't, you can force this via :set t_Co=256 (before the :colorscheme command), but it's better to choose an appropriate value for $TERM , eg gnome-256color .

Answer 2

It's better to use _vimrc instead of .vimrc in windows.

For example, given below is my vim directory structure:

C:\Users\pmu\vim>dir
 Volume in drive C is PC COE
 Volume Serial Number is 48FC-5307

 Directory of C:\Users\pmu\vim

04/25/2014  09:00 PM    <DIR>          .
04/25/2014  09:00 PM    <DIR>          ..
02/28/2014  11:52 PM    <DIR>          vim74
04/15/2014  11:51 PM    <DIR>          vimfiles
04/21/2014  02:06 PM             8,804 _vimrc
              14 File(s)         41,661 bytes
               6 Dir(s)  265,565,655,040 bytes free

C:\Users\pmu\vim>

It's better not to use .gvimrc ( or in case of windows _gvimrc) as some plugins might work slowly.

One more thing - I see a ` in there.

 set hlsearch`

It should be:

set hlsearch