UNIX plug-ins
Hi, I was wondering if someone could assist me in installing a color scheme plug in for VIM? I literally have spent all day yesterday and this morning trying to figure it out. I followed the instructions to what I thought "was to the letter" but that wasn't the case. I have to use Vim for my OOP course this semester and the instructor has encouraged us to do this. Generally speaking I know how to navigating a shell but I can't figure out what I am doing wrong... I will post a link to what I am trying to install and thank you in advance for your assistance.
https://github.com/whatyouhide/vim-gotham
https://github.com/whatyouhide/vim-gotham
All you have to do is copy the colorscheme (gotham.vim) to ~/.vim/colors directory.
If you don't have ~/.vim/colors directory just make it.
$ mkdir -p ~/.vim/colors
$ cp gotham.vim ~/.vim/colors
It's that simple and it's really all there is to it.
You were probably trying to install vim-plug (or vundle or vim-pathogen) which requires editing .vimrc.
Until you become more familiar with vimscript (and vim in general) you can leave plugin managers by the side.
Make sure to go through vimtutor!
Note: The difference between using a plugin manager and manually copying plugins to ~/.vim directory is similar to using `apt-get install` rather than manually copying files to /usr/bin. Both will work it's just that the former is better if you have a lot of things (plugins or software) to manage.
If you don't have ~/.vim/colors directory just make it.
$ mkdir -p ~/.vim/colors
$ cp gotham.vim ~/.vim/colors
It's that simple and it's really all there is to it.
You were probably trying to install vim-plug (or vundle or vim-pathogen) which requires editing .vimrc.
Until you become more familiar with vimscript (and vim in general) you can leave plugin managers by the side.
Make sure to go through vimtutor!
Note: The difference between using a plugin manager and manually copying plugins to ~/.vim directory is similar to using `apt-get install` rather than manually copying files to /usr/bin. Both will work it's just that the former is better if you have a lot of things (plugins or software) to manage.
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I think the problem I'm having is that you have to "clone it" from github but when i try to copy it says the file doesn't exist. Thank you again for the help. Sounds really dumb but in this environment I'm trying to figure out how to "retrieve it" because its nonexistent on my instance thats why I thought you needed a plugin manager.
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| you have to "clone it" from github |
$ git clone https://github.com/whatyouhide/vim-gotham.git Now you have a local copy.
Alternatively, go to
https://github.com/whatyouhide/vim-gotham
And click the green "clone or download" button and download the zip file.
Unzip it, and then you have a local copy.
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