How can I set my VIM color scheme to the same default color scheme in Visual Studio?

Question

Very new to VIM so any explanation on how to configure would be very appreciated.

Answer 1

You need to search in the different color schemes. I don't know if there's one who is the same as in Visual Studio, but maybe you'll find a better one. :)

Type a little piece of code, then :colorscheme, a space, and press Tab to see every colorscheme. You can download new colorschemes here : http://www.vim.org/search.php

Answer 2

Find one here that is close to Visual Studio.

Download it and put colorscheme foo in your .vimrc (_vimrc on Windows) where foo is the name of the colorscheme.

Answer 3

My "Bandit" colour scheme was originally based on the highlighting from Visual Studio (version 6 I think) and Matlab. It's probably not a perfect match, but it may be of interest.

It's available here and, in case the screenshot below doesn't work, there's a screenshot here. Note that you'll need to do:

set background=light

before configuring the colour scheme as otherwise it will default to a dark background.