{"id":5215,"date":"2026-04-17T11:43:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=5215"},"modified":"2026-04-17T11:43:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:43:49","slug":"add-vim-colour-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=5215","title":{"rendered":"Add VIM Colour Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If like me you struggle to read dark blue comments on a black screen when using VIM, you can set a colour scheme in VIM by creating a file with these contents in your home directory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>touch .vimrc<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Add the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>:color desert<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are a number of other colour schemes to suit your tastes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If like me you struggle to read dark blue comments on a black screen when using VIM, you can set a colour scheme in VIM by creating a file with these contents in your home directory. Add the following: There are a number of other colour schemes to suit your tastes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5216,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions\/5216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}