Vim Color Schemes: Windows vs. Git Bash
I’m running gVim on Windows 7 Professional & using a custom color scheme. I discovered that I need to have my color scheme’s .vim script in different locations depending upon whether I start vim from the Windows PowerShell terminal or the from the Git Bash shell (MINGW64).
If Vim is running from PowerShell, it looks for color scheme scripts in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim74\colors
If Vim is running from a Bash shell, it looks for color scheme scripts in:
C:\Users\[user name]\.vim\colors
Update:
techno-lust: I did end up creating symbolic links to my custom scripts in “C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim74\colors” using the Windows mklink command. Amusingly, I had to run mklink in the old-school cmd.exe window. It’s not built into PowerShell or Git Bash.











