I am confused about how vim's color schemes seem to be working for me with my gnome terminal color settings.
I have installed the colorscheme sample pack:
http://www.vi-improved.org/color_sampler_pack/
All of these appear differently for me, and they change as I change my Foreground and Background colors and Palette in my gnome-terminal profile.
Is there some way to allow vim's color scheming to override these terminal settings?
Setting vim to use 256 colors using :set t_Co=256 changes the appearance, but does not solve the problem.
Best Answer
set your TERM environment variable to
xterm-256color, as it is described in http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/256_colors_in_vim.