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My Problem is that I am having trouble installing and using a new color scheme for VIM 7.2.

Here's what I'm doing to install the new color scheme:

  1. I navigate to the terminal on my local machine: Ubuntu 10.04 > Main Menu > Applications > Accessories > Terminal
  2. I then SSH into a development machine.
  3. Next I download (for example) wombat.vim from here: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1778
  4. Then I move wombat.vim to ~/.vim/colors
  5. Finally I add the following to my .vimrc file: 
    set t_Co=256
    set background=dark
    colors wombat

Here's what it should look like: http://dengmao.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/vim-color-scheme-wombat/ [link for screenshots found on vim.org]

Here's a screenshot of what I'm seeing: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ON6SOx5pXtXd_OsEUkW7mL_t_I-kAslfDzoIG27VNGs?feat=directlink

Any help is much appreciated.

[EDIT]

$ tput colors
256
$ echo $TERM
xterm-256color
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Your terminal is probably using 88 colors, or you do not have the $TERM variable set correctly. From within your terminal use tput colors to see if you have an 88 or 256 color terminal. If it reports 256, your $TERM variable is probably not set correctly -- try changing it to xterm-256color in your .bashrc or similar.

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  • The $TERM variable is set correctly as well as the terminal being set to xterm-256color. – bitcycle Nov 22 '10 at 18:25
  • `TERM` is set correctly on both the local and development machines? Do you have anything odd in .Xdefaults on either machine (e.g. *.color1: #abcdef) that might change your colors? If you can, grab the output of `256colors.pl` (google) and screenshot it as well. – Sam Halicke Nov 22 '10 at 18:45
  • Bottom answer is correct but I'll leave this up in case it helps others with a similar problem. – Sam Halicke Nov 23 '10 at 17:10
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That colorscheme is GUI-only. For it to work in the terminal, you'll need a plugin like godlygeek's CSApprox and a GUI-aware vim.

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