How to get the list of all installed color schemes in Vim?
How to get the list of all installed color schemes in Vim?
Question
Is there a way to get a list of all installed color schemes in Vim? That would make very easy to select one without looking at the .vim directory.
Accepted Answer
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:colorscheme then Space followed by TAB.
or as Peter said,
:colorscheme then Space followed by CTRLd
The short version of the command is :colo so you can use it in the two previous commands, instead of using the "long form".
If you want to find and preview more themes, there are various websites like Vim colors
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Just for convenient reference as I see that there are a lot of people searching for this topic and are too laz... sorry, busy, to check themselves (including me). Here a list of the default set of colour schemes for Vim 7.4:
blue.vim
darkblue.vim,
delek.vim
desert.vim
elflord.vim
evening.vim
industry.vim
koehler.vim
morning.vim
murphy.vim
pablo.vim
peachpuff.vim
ron.vim
shine.vim
slate.vim
torte.vim
zellner.vim
If you are willing to install a plugin, I recommend https://github.com/vim-scripts/CycleColor.
to cycle through all installed colorschemes. Nice way to easily choose a colorscheme.
Here is a small function I wrote to try all the colorschemes in $VIMRUNTIME/colors directory.
Add the below function to your vimrc, then open your source file and call the function from command.
function! DisplayColorSchemes()
let currDir = getcwd()
exec "cd $VIMRUNTIME/colors"
for myCol in split(glob("*"), '\n')
if myCol =~ '\.vim'
let mycol = substitute(myCol, '\.vim', '', '')
exec "colorscheme " . mycol
exec "redraw!"
echo "colorscheme = ". myCol
sleep 2
endif
endfor
exec "cd " . currDir
endfunction
If you have your vim compiled with +menu, you can follow menus with the :help of console-menu. From there, you can navigate to Edit.Color\ Scheme to get the same list as with in gvim.
Other method is to use a cool script ScrollColors that previews the colorschemes while you scroll the schemes with j/k.