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Message from discussion Can't get vim to use custom color in personal folder(finds .vimrc/.gvimrc but not .vim/colors/name.vim)
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Jürgen Krämer  
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 More options Oct 12 2011, 2:49 am
From: Jürgen Krämer <jottka...@googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:49:59 +0200
Local: Wed, Oct 12 2011 2:49 am
Subject: Re: Can't get vim to use custom color in personal folder(finds .vimrc/.gvimrc but not .vim/colors/name.vim)
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Hi,

Linda W wrote:

>   I'm trying to place my color.vim file in
> ~/.vim/colors/linda.vim

> But it is not finding it.

> I've only been able to get it to work by putting it
> C:\prog64\vim\colors\

> (note I constantly have to move new 'vims' out of prog64\vim\vimXXX up
> into vim,
> upon new installations so all the programs that look for it at a fixed
> location don't
> break; don't actually move it, just create links)...

> It finds my .vimrc, and .gvimrc. in C:\users\linda (~), which is what
> I get if I type echo $HOME in gvim, (win7-64bit version)...

> (at least when I launch from explorer...)...so if it finds my .vim and
> .gvim,
> why doesn't it find .vim/colors/xxxx.vim?

did you change the 'runtimepath' option? On Windows the directory for
user-specific scripts is ~/vimfiles by default, not ~/.vim.

Regards,
J rgen

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