How to set Background Color to Dark?

[albas99]

My NeoVim in the terminal has a dark background but I can't find a way to set VimR background to dark. Is there a way I could do that?

[robacarp]

There are a bunch of things at play here. For example:

• what color is your terminal set to?
• what do you mean by "dark"?
• is your vim config in set bg=dark mode?
• what color scheme does your vim config use?

My guess is you can start with :set bg=dark but you might be interested in a color theme switcher. Here are some vim/neovim compatible plugins that I use which might be helpful to you:

'altercation/vim-colors-solarized' 'vim-scripts/Colour-Sampler-Pack' 'vim-scripts/ScrollColors'

[greysave]

@robacarp when I type the command :set bg=dark or :set background=dark my vimR does not change.

[albas99]

Update: so it seems like before I was using the wrong configuration. For anyone seeing this in the future, check out this video on how to correctly set everything up.