On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 12:36:56PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> I wanted to open vi with a white background and a black fg
> to do that, I put in my .vimrc, as recommended, a line
> colorscheme white
> that worked, except that each time I open vim, I get the message:
> cannot find color scheme 'white'
> I don't worry, but is there a way to get rid of that warning?
You could try using a different colorscheme. Apparently, there's no
way to get vim to tell you their names, but the help says it looks
for "colors/{name}.vim", so you might be able to do something like
this to find them:
locate colors | grep vim
I have no idea why a command that fails would still give you the desired
result. Did you already have a .vimrc file before this? Or did you
create a whole .vimrc file just for this line?
If creating the .vimrc file is what fixed it (by overriding the system
default vimrc), then you don't actually need a colorscheme line at all.
You just need a .vimrc file, and an empty one should suffice if you really
don't want any changes.
