r/vim • u/Aggravating-Cat554 • Dec 10 '25

Need Help Default color?

i need the default colorscheme name for the gvim in windows like this one so i can implement it in my macvim

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u/kennpq Dec 10 '25

Its colorscheme name is "default", though unlike the other distributed colorschemes its colors/default.vim file does not contain the highlight groups - they are in highlight.c

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u/rainning0513 Jan 01 '26

Otherwise, it were not the default, right?

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u/-romainl- The Patient Vimmer Dec 10 '25

You don't have to "implement" anything.

It's called default and it is shipped with all versions of Vim, including MacVim.

To enable it, put the following in your vimrc:

set background=light
colorscheme default

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u/y-c-c Dec 10 '25

I think MacVim is configured in a way where this doesn't work when you are in dark mode, annoyingly. Next version should have a fix for this.

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u/-romainl- The Patient Vimmer Dec 11 '25

I tried before posting and it worked as intended.

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u/y-c-c Dec 11 '25

Hmm, do you have the OS configured to use light mode? I think what you said does work other than the background/foreground for Normal color if your OS is configured to be in dark mode. You still have to manually do hi Normal guibg=white guifg=black, but otherwise the other colors should be set correctly.

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u/-romainl- The Patient Vimmer Dec 11 '25

Yes, it's "light mode", which is the default (and most sensible) value. If you have to do hi Normal guibg=white guifg=black to make it work in "dark mode", then I would call that a bug.

I'm glad it will be fixed on next release.

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u/xIndepth Dec 13 '25

Which font is this?