force vim background to black

Question

Is there any way, in my vimrc, to override the background setting of my colorscheme and force it to black? I'm looking for something like

set colorscheme=wombat256
override_background(black)

so that whatever scheme I select, the background gets forced to black.

Saccharine

What if the foreground text in the theme is black as well? – Prohibitory

then i'll get invisible text :) i mostly want this because there lots of themes that i like except for the grey/dark blue/otherwise off-black background, and it would be handy to not have to change them individually. – Saccharine

Answer 1

 colorscheme wombat256
 highlight Normal guibg=black guifg=white
 set background=dark

Tweak to taste :)

@edit: after reading you later comment I suspect you'll find you need to override more related highlight (group) background colors. It'll be clearest which ones, by reading the existing color schemes

Ashely

thanks :) that pointed me in the right direction. the actual command was highlight Normal ctermbg=None, thanks to a gnome terminal bug in which Black is not black [superuser.com/questions/142486/… – Saccharine

I have to put set background=dark before the highlight override in order to make this work. – Spinoza

Answer 2

This is what worked for me:

colorscheme wombat256
hi Normal ctermbg=16 guibg=#000000
hi LineNr ctermbg=16 guibg=#000000

Leung