E492: Not an editor command: ++nested colorscheme gruvbox

[dickshaydle]

The gruvbox colors look very nice and i wanted to try it. I use vim in the terminal.

I installed gruvbox via vim-plug and put the line autocmd vimenter * ++nested colorscheme gruvbox after the plug block in the .vimrc.

When i start vim i get the error

Error detected while processing VimEnter Auto commands for "*":
E492: Not an editor command: ++nested colorscheme gruvbox

I can manually change the colorscheme inside vim with :colorscheme gruvbox but this only affects the main window and i cannot change the g:gruvbox_contrast_dark settings. If i try, strangely it switches to light mode, after some back and forth of color scheme switching.

gruvebox was installed in ~/.vim/plugged/gruvbox/ I didn't find anything helpful so far. Any ideas?

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> vim --version
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[dickshaydle]

ok, it seems to work. colorscheme gruvbox seems enough.

The color difference in the other pages came from the not matching Terminal color scheme.

[pnsantos]

@dickshaydle I know it's been a while but I came across this myself and I think it's because ++nested was included only in later versions. The "old" command is simply nested, i.e.:

autocmd vimenter * nested colorscheme gruvbox

[SegmentationViolator]

what's the difference between autocmd vimenter * ++nested colorscheme gruvbox and colorscheme gruvbox