VIM Color scheme not loading by default

Question

When I do

:colorscheme vilight 

it loads the color scheme fine.

So I added

colorscheme vilight

to my .vimrc but its not loading it on start. Am I missing something?

Also in my config

set background=dark 
syntax on
colorscheme vilight 
set lines=60 columns=200

Answer 1

For Macvim, the solution would be add the following into your .vimrc:

let macvim_skip_colorscheme=1

Then it will respect your choice in .vimrc.

Answer 2

If you are using MacVim I had problems loading downloaded color schemes too. I found out that if you move the color schemes to:

/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/colors

Then it would work in your .gvimrc

Answer 3

Are you using gvim? It is possible that your .gvimrc or the system's gvimrc file is overriding the colorscheme selection from your .vimrc.

Answer 4

Had the same problem. Commenting out set background=light in file .gvim fixed the issue for me.