9/15/2009

Using VIM color schemes with putty

My eyes are always grateful if I can spare them terrible color schemes. The other day I stumbled on what seemed to be a really nice color scheme called wombat, so I decided to allot five minutes of my time to quickly change the color scheme...or so I thought ;-)

Turns out that when using putty, not all colors are available, and most good looking vim color schemes will not work. After googling, I found that someone has converted the theme for 88 and 256 color xterms. So I downloaded that one too. Surely, now it would work, right?

Well, almost, after some more googling, I finally found the solution. In your vimrc file, simply add the following line

and presto, now you can use the wombat256 theme ;-)

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