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Asked: 2026-06-10T00:38:08+00:00

How can I change the syntax highlighting in vim for C/C++/PHP in particular? Can

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How can I change the syntax highlighting in vim for C/C++/PHP in particular?
Can I also change the background color so it won’t be the same as the shell’s?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Before you start installing various plugins, check out pre-installed color schemes that ships with your Vim. In my case I have many of them:

    # rpm -ql vim vim-common | grep color
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/README.txt
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/blue.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/darkblue.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/default.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/delek.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/desert.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/elflord.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/evening.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/koehler.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/morning.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/murphy.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/pablo.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/peachpuff.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/ron.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/shine.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/slate.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/torte.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/zellner.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/ftplugin/dircolors.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/colortest.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/dircolors.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/syncolor.vim
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/colors
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/colors

    To change it just use this:

    colorscheme darkblue

    Also you can download color schemes and just drop them into your VIMRC subdirectory “colors” and load them the same way. I like this one for example: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

    And of course, you can modify those color schemes. Just copy the “default.vim” (or the one you like) to your VIMRC/colors and edit it to change colors you want.

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