I have a problem setting a theme from by Daylee Rees (https://github.com/daylerees/colour-schemes) for Vim (term/MacVim).

When I choose the theme say "Lavender Contrast" -

colorscheme Lavendar Contrast

I get an error saying the theme cannot be found. Wherein single-worded theme names like `colorscheme Goldfish' is getting set without any problem.

The whole list of themes and how they look is found here: https://daylerees.github.io/

I tried putting Lavender_Contrast, Lavender-Contrast, etc, but it doesn't seem to work.

CodePudding user response：

As explained under :help :colorscheme, the argument of :colorscheme is the filename without the extension:

This searches 'runtimepath' for the file "colors/{name}.vim".

so there is no reason whatsoever to try anything else.

In this case, the filename is lavender-contrast.vim so the correct command is:

:colorscheme lavender-contrast

Note that, if your system is case-insensitive, Lavender-Contrast, LAVender-contrAST, or any other case permutation may also be valid arguments but that would be silly.