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Asked: 2026-05-26T17:28:50+00:00

I use vim on webfaction through putty and would like to change the colours

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I use vim on webfaction through putty and would like to change the colours used in the syntax highlighting. I have installed some example themes and then tried to change the colors in those themes to match the ones I want. For some reason this strategy does not work. What am I doing wrong? Is it because I’m using putty, or is it something weird with webfaction’s linux or vim? Or is my logic just wrong?

I created /home/user/.vim/color/theme.vim
I then load the them by adding colorscheme theme to my /home/user/.vimrc

Aside from my color changes not working on obvious parts like

hi Normal      guifg=#ffffff guibg=#000000 gui=none

it also does not seem to implement all the theme changes when I just use the theme without changing it. Is there something better than putty I can use?

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  1. Editorial Team

    In terminal mode, the ctermbg and ctermfg keys are used instead of guibg and guifg. It uses Xterm colors. See for example this table for a rough mapping, and even a VIM script that shows a color table.

    So you would need to change your line to:

    hi Normal ctermfg=15 ctermbg=0 guifg=#ffffff guibg=#000000 gui=none
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