How to get the list of all installed color schemes in Vim

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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

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i know i am late for this answer but the correct answer seems to be

See :help getcompletion():

:echo getcompletion('', 'color')

which you can assign to a variable:

:let foo = getcompletion('', 'color')

or use in an expression register:

:put=getcompletion('', 'color')

This is not my answer, this solution is provided by u/romainl in this post on reddit.

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Looking at my system s menu vim  look for  Color Scheme submenu   and  chappar s answer  I came up with the following function     Returns the list of available color schemes function  GetColorSchemes      return uniq sort map        globpath  amp runtimepath   colors   vim   0  1            fnamemodify v val    t r            endfunction   It does the following    Gets the list of available color scheme scripts under all runtime paths  globpath  runtimepath  Maps the script paths to their base names  strips parent dirs and extension   map  fnamemodify  Sorts and removes duplicates  uniq  sort    Then to use the function I do something like this   let s schemes   GetColorSchemes   if index s schemes   solarized    gt   0    colorscheme solarized elseif index s schemes   darkblue    gt   0    colorscheme darkblue endif   Which means I prefer the  solarized  and then the  darkblue  schemes  if none of them is available  do nothing

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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

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Try   set wildmenu set wildmode list full set wildcharm  lt C-z gt  let mapleader     nnoremap  lt leader gt c  colorscheme  lt C-z gt  lt S-Tab gt    in your    vimrc    The first two lines make possible matches appear as lists  You can use either or both    The fourth line makes leader   instead of the default      The last line allows you to simply type  c to get a list and a prompt to change your colorscheme    The third line effectively allows for Tabs to appear in key maps     Of course  all of these strategies I ve learned from the internet  and mostly SO  very recently

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You can see the list of color schemes under  usr share vim vimNN colors  with NN being the version  e g  vim74 for vim 7 4    This is explained here   On the linux servers I use via ssh  TAB prints  I and CTRLd prints  D

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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

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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

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Type    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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Another simpler way is while you are editing a file - tabe    vim colors  ENTER Will open all the themes in a new tab within vim window    You may come back to the file you were editing using - CTRL   W   W ENTER  Note  Above will work ONLY IF YOU HAVE a  vim colors directory within your home directory for current  USER  I have 70  themes       user host     ls -l    vim colors   wc -l       72

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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

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A great solution  and my thanks to your contributors  For years I ve been struggling with a totally crappy color scheme -- using SSH under Windows Vista to a Redhat system  terminal type xterm  The editor would come up with a black background and weird colors for various keywords   Worse -- that weird color scheme sticks in the xterm terminal after leaving Vim   Really confusing   Also  Backspace failed during an insert mode  which was nasty to remember -- though Delete did the same thing   The cure --   In the SSH monitor  select Edit Settings   a  Choose Profile Settings Colors  b  check  enable ANSI colors   c  The standard Text colors are probably OK Add these lines to  HOME  vimrc   colorscheme default  if  amp term     xterm   set t kb  H  fixdel  endif NOTE  the  H MUST be typed as ctrl-V ctrl-H   Seems peculiar  but this seems to work

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