How to get the list of all installed color schemes in Vim?

Is there a way to get a list of all installed color schemes in Vim? That would make very easy to select one without looking at the .vim directory.

Solution 1:

Type

:colorscheme then Space followed by TAB.

or as Peter said,

:colorscheme then Space followed by CTRLd

The short version of the command is :colo so you can use it in the two previous commands, instead of using the "long form".

If you want to find and preview more themes, there are various websites like Vim colors

Solution 2:

You can see the list of color schemes under /usr/share/vim/vimNN/colors (with NN being the version, e.g. vim74 for vim 7.4).

This is explained here.

On the linux servers I use via ssh, TAB prints ^I and CTRLd prints ^D.

Solution 3:

Just for convenient reference as I see that there are a lot of people searching for this topic and are too laz... sorry, busy, to check themselves (including me). Here a list of the default set of colour schemes for Vim 7.4:

blue.vim
darkblue.vim,
delek.vim
desert.vim
elflord.vim
evening.vim
industry.vim                                                                                                                                                 
koehler.vim                                                                                                                                                  
morning.vim                                                                                                                                                  
murphy.vim                                                                                                                                                   
pablo.vim                                                                                                                                                    
peachpuff.vim                                                                                                                                                
ron.vim                                                                                                                                                      
shine.vim                                                                                                                                                    
slate.vim                                                                                                                                                    
torte.vim                                                                                                                                                    
zellner.vim

Solution 4:

If you are willing to install a plugin, I recommend https://github.com/vim-scripts/CycleColor.

to cycle through all installed colorschemes. Nice way to easily choose a colorscheme.

Solution 5:

Here is a small function I wrote to try all the colorschemes in $VIMRUNTIME/colors directory.

Add the below function to your vimrc, then open your source file and call the function from command.

function! DisplayColorSchemes()
   let currDir = getcwd()
   exec "cd $VIMRUNTIME/colors"
   for myCol in split(glob("*"), '\n')
      if myCol =~ '\.vim'
         let mycol = substitute(myCol, '\.vim', '', '')
         exec "colorscheme " . mycol
         exec "redraw!"
         echo "colorscheme = ". myCol
         sleep 2
      endif
   endfor
   exec "cd " . currDir
endfunction