Vim colorscheme change

Question

I'm having difficulty getting my colorscheme to change. I've opened both ~/.vimrc and /usr/share/vim/vimrc and added:

colorscheme desert

...and nothing. I noticed the color schemes are here:

/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/desert.vim (...along with a bunch or others)

which seems like the wrong place so I:

cp /usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/desert.vim ~/.vim/colors/

and still no go.

Answer 1

Try setting your terminal colours in your .bashrc/.bash_profile to:

export TERM=xterm-256color

& in your .vimrc

let g:"your_colourscheme"_termcolors=256

& that should stick. Bit of a kludge I know but it should work.

Saves typing

:colorscheme whatever everytime you start Vim