E185: Cannot find color scheme*

vim color-scheme
Bigbadboybob picture Bigbadboybob · Oct 17, 2016 · Viewed 37.6k times · Source

I have been customizing my vimrc file but for some reason, no colorschemes work. Whenever I try to change the colorscheme, it just gives me:

E185: Cannot find color scheme '*'

I checked the color folder to make sure I actually have colors and I do. For example the first item in the color folder is blue.vim but when I put colorscheme blue in the vimrc, it just gives

E185: Cannot find color scheme 'blue'

when I start Vim and the colorscheme doesn't apply. I also tried changing the colorscheme from within Vim and it also returns the same error. All the other vimrc settings that I've tried work so far.

Answer

Ingo Karkat picture Ingo Karkat · Oct 17, 2016

This sounds like a problem with your 'runtimepath' option. If you use a plugin manager, these usually extend that. The default location should be ~/.vim/colors. Please check with

:set runtimepath?

There should be a ~/.vim in there (or equivalent).

If all else fails, you could also just :source /full/path/to/your/color.vim

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