Color Theme

Ok! This is an exciting section - we're going to spruce up Vim with a color theme!

Configure

We will use vim-colors-solarized as a starting point.

We need to tell VimPlug to install this plugin, by adding it to our .vimrc, inside the 2 call statements:

Plug 'altercation/vim-colors-solarized'

We also need to tell Vim to use this plugin:

" Use Solarized color scheme
colorscheme solarized

Now we need to save, reload, and run PlugInstall

First, let's save:

:w

Then, we need to reload Vim using our updated .vimrc

:so %

We will get this error, but that's okay - we know that we haven't installed that plugin yet.

We can dismiss that with <Enter>.

Now, let's get VimPlug to install our color theme plugin!

:PlugInstall

We should see this success window:

Finally, we need to reload .vimrc again:

:so %

Voila!