Override colorscheme

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Published on 2010-03-13T21:43:18Z Indexed on 2010/03/14 11:05 UTC
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I often find myself wanting to change just something little in a colorscheme, but i don't want to edit the original file. I tried putting my change in '~/.vim/after/colors/blah.vim', but that doesn't work for me.

Example, I want to change the CursorLine highlight in BusyBee.vim..

~/.vim/colors/BusyBee.vim

I create the file '~/.vim/after/colors/BusyBee.vim' and add this:

hi CursorLine    guibg=#000000 ctermbg=Black cterm=none

However, i don't see the change. Of course it works if i change the line in the originial BusyBee.vim, but like i said i'd prefer not to do that.

Doing...

:colo Busy<TAB>

Shows me...

BusyBee  BusyBee

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