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Home » Vim – Change Color Scheme for Easy Readability

Vim – Change Color Scheme for Easy Readability

April 22, 2022 - by Zsolt Agoston - last edited on April 22, 2022

Default color scheme might be difficult to read on black background.

Vim – Change Color Scheme for Easy Readability

FIX

To change it to a lighter scheme that is easier on the eyes you need to create a new vim profile in your profile directory. It's a hidden file called .vimrc

Run the following two commands from a shell:

echo colo desert >> ~/.vimrc
echo syntax on >> ~/.vimrc

These two commands will create the file if it does not exist or if it does we add the color scheme configuration without overwriting existing settings.

Here's how the .vimrc file should look like (again, yours might contain more stuff):

Vim – Change Color Scheme for Easy Readability

Now the same file should be easier to read!

Vim – Change Color Scheme for Easy Readability

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