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vim-colorscheme-switcher : Easily & quickly switch between color schemes

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created by
Peter Odding
 
script type
utility
 
description
The colorscheme switcher plug-in for the Vim text editor makes it easy to quickly switch between colorschemes. It defines commands and mappings to switch to the next and previous color schemes:

• :NextColorScheme command and <F8> mapping
• :PrevColorScheme command and <Shift-F8> mapping

For more information about the plug-in please refer to its homepage or the project page on GitHub:

http://peterodding.com/code/vim/colorscheme-switcher/
http://github.com/xolox/vim-colorscheme-switcher

If you have questions, bug reports, suggestions, etc. the author can be contacted at peter@peterodding.com. If you like this plug-in please vote for it below!
 
install details
Please note that the vim-colorscheme-switcher plug-in requires my vim-misc plug-in which is separately distributed (see vimscript #4597).

Unzip the most recent ZIP archives of the vim-colorscheme-switcher and vim-misc plug-ins inside your Vim profile directory (usually this is ~/.vim on UNIX and %USERPROFILE%\vimfiles on Windows), restart Vim and execute the command :helptags ~/.vim/doc (use :helptags ~\vimfiles\doc instead on Windows). Now try it out: Execute :NextColorScheme to switch to the next color scheme.

If you didn't change the plug-in's configuration you can now use the F8 and Shift-F8 keys to switch to the next/previous color scheme.

If you prefer you can also use Pathogen, Vundle or a similar tool to install & update the vim-colorscheme-switcher and vim-misc plug-ins using a local clone of the git repository.
 

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package script version date Vim version user release notes
colorscheme-switcher.zip 0.5.1 2015-04-01 7.0 Peter Odding • Potential workaround for color scheme switching in terminal Vim:
   http://github.com/xolox/vim-colorscheme-switcher/commit/4d9807a
colorscheme-switcher.zip 0.5 2014-11-19 7.0 Peter Odding • Make it possible to exclude color schemes in $VIMRUNTIME/colors:
   http://github.com/xolox/vim-colorscheme-switcher/commit/03ed734
colorscheme-switcher.zip 0.4.1 2014-06-25 7.0 Peter Odding • Mention vim-colorscheme-manager in README:
   http://github.com/xolox/vim-colorscheme-switcher/commit/1c87ba8
> • Enable usage from vimrc (improved robustness, see issue #4 on GitHub):
  
http://github.com/xolox/vim-colorscheme-switcher/commit/689c86b
colorscheme-switcher.zip 0.4 2014-06-20 7.0 Peter Odding • Implement request in issue #3 (option to override :colorscheme command):
   http://github.com/xolox/vim-colorscheme-switcher/commit/25265ac
colorscheme-switcher.zip 0.3 2014-06-19 7.0 Peter Odding • Implement :RandomColorScheme (mapped to <C-F8> by default):
   http://github.com/xolox/vim-colorscheme-switcher/commit/9c52c02
colorscheme-switcher.zip 0.2.5 2013-08-19 7.0 Peter Odding • Make sure vim-misc is installed, politely complain if it isn't:
   http://github.com/xolox/vim-colorscheme-switcher/commit/487260a
colorscheme-switcher.zip 0.2.4 2013-05-25 7.0 Peter Odding • Document vim-misc as external dependency (needs to be installed separately from now on):
   http://github.com/xolox/vim-colorscheme-switcher/commit/afeefed
colorscheme-switcher.zip 0.2.2 2013-05-20 7.0 Peter Odding • Updated miscellaneous scripts:
   http://github.com/xolox/vim-colorscheme-switcher/commit/5e32341
colorscheme-switcher.zip 0.2.1 2013-05-19 7.0 Peter Odding • Add link to Vim Online page in README.md, also create INSTALL.md:
   http://github.com/xolox/vim-colorscheme-switcher/commit/27e01bf
> • Updated miscellaneous scripts:
  
http://github.com/xolox/vim-colorscheme-switcher/commit/74e905c
colorscheme-switcher.zip 0.2 2013-05-18 7.0 Peter Odding Initial upload
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