Did you know that you can easily turn on color syntax highlighting and switch to another color schemes in the vim text editor?
Start Vim and press [esc] followed by the commands:
:syntax on
and
:colorscheme murphy
The murphy theme is my personal favourite, but feel free to pick one of the other build in themes: blue | darkblue | default | delek | desert | elflord | evening | industry | koehler | morning | pablo | peachpuff | ron | shine | slate | torte | zellner
If you wish to permanently use the syntax highlighting and color scheme simply create a file .vimrc in your home directory:
vim ~/.vimrc
and include the following two lines:
syntax on
colorscheme murphy
wq! to save 😉
Oh, and if you just cant get enough of all those colours you can also spice up your bash shell:
vim ~/.bashrc
search for:
#force_color_prompt=yes
and remove the # to enable system colours
save your changes, exit VIM and type:
source ~/.bashrc
result:
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