> 1) If the colorscheme you've come to love is one distributed with Vim (and found in $VIMRUNTIME/colors/) then don't modify it in-place. The way to modify such a scheme for your own youse is to:
> a) Make sure that directory $HOME/.vim/colors exists, and if necessary, create it, with its parent if that doesn't yet exist either
> b) Copy the colorscheme you want to edit into that new directory, and give it a new name that doesn't clash with the name of any existing colorscheme
> c) THEN you may modify that "new" colorscheme without fear.
>
> (Anything in the directory tree starting at $VIMRUNTIME may be silently modified whenever you upgrade Vim.)
Thanks, Tony. Yeah, it was distributed with Vim, with MacVim that is. And I did what you said -- copied the scheme to ~/.vim/colors and made the changes there. And thanks, too, for the pointers to relevant help.
Sincerely,
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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA USA
eeweir@bellsouth.net
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