How to set default vim colorscheme

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The latest upgrade of Ubuntu made my vim colorscheme unusable  I know how to set it manually   colo evening  for example   but I want to set the default for all vim sessions  I see reference in other places to  vimrc  but the right location and syntax have eluded me thus far

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Copy downloaded color schemes to    vim colors Your Color Scheme   Then write  colo Your Color Scheme   or  colorscheme Your Color Scheme   into your    vimrc   See this link for holokai

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OS   Redhat enterprise edition   colo schema name works fine if you are facing problems with colorscheme

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Ubuntu 17 10 default doesn t have the    vimrc file  we need create it and put the setting colorscheme color scheme name in it   By the way  colorscheme desert is good scheme to choose

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Once you   ve decided to change vim color scheme that you like  you   ll need to configure vim configuration file    vimrc   For e g  to use the elflord color scheme just add these lines to your    vimrc file   colo elflord  For other names of color schemes you can look in  usr share vim vimNN colors where NN - version of VIM

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It s as simple as adding a line to your    vimrc      colorscheme color scheme name

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You can try too to put this into your    vimrc file   colorscheme Solarized

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Your  vimrc file goes in your  HOME directory   In  nix  cd    vim  vimrc   The commands in the  vimrc are the same as you type in ex-mode in vim  only without the leading colon  so colo evening would suffice   Comments in the  vimrc are indicated with a leading double-quote   To see an example vimrc  open  VIMRUNTIME vimrc example vim from within vim   e  VIMRUNTIME vimrc example vim

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What was asked for was to set   the  default   not some other color profile  and   for all vim sessions   not simply for the current user    The default colorscheme   quot for all vim sessions quot   is not set simply by adding a line to your     vimrc  as all of the other answers here say  nor is the default set without the word  default  being there  So all of the other answers here  so far  get both of these wrong     lol  how did that happen    The correct answer is  Add a line to your system vim setup file in  etc vim  that says colorscheme default  or using the abbreviation colo default  but not capitalized as colo Default   I suggest using the full  un-abbreviated term  colorscheme   so that when you look at this years later you ll be able to more easily figure out what that darn thing does   I would also put a comment above it like  quot Use default colors for vim quot     To append that correctly  first look at your  etc vim vimrc file  At the bottom of mine  I see these lines which include  etc vim vimrc local   quot  Source a global configuration file if available if filereadable  quot  etc vim vimrc local quot     source  etc vim vimrc local endif  So you can append this line to either of these two files  I think the best solution is to append your line to  etc vim vimrc local like this   colorscheme default   You can easily do that in bash with this line    echo -e  quot   quot Use default colors for vim  ncolorscheme default quot           sudo tee -a  etc vim vimrc local           NOTE   This doesn t work              sudo echo  colorscheme default    gt  gt   etc vim vimrc local         It s the same general idea  and simpler  but because sudo doesn t       know how to handle pipes  it fails with a  Permission denied  error   Also check that you have permission to globally read this file  sudo chmod 644  etc vim vimrc local   With   tail  etc vim vimrc local you should now see these lines   quot Use default colors for vim  colorscheme default

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Put a colorscheme directive in your  vimrc file  for example   colorscheme morning   See here  http   vim wikia com wiki Change the color scheme

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You can just use the one-liner  echo colorscheme koehler  gt  gt     vimrc   and replace koehler with any other available colorscheme  Imho  all of them are better than default

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