Plugin your theme

First open vim plug and add your theme, you can add as many themes as you want here to switch between them at any time

I'm going to be installing the gruvbox theme I'll link to a repo with a bunch of others at the bottom of the blog

Open vim-plug/plugins.vim and add the following:

Plug 'gruvbox-community/gruvbox' " community gruvbox.

Make sure to run :PlugInstall

Theme config

First create a directory for themes and then add the name of the theme you want to install

mkdir %userprofile%\.config\vim\themes

type nul > %userprofile%\.config\vim\themes\gruvbox.vim

Now let's set the colorscheme, open gruvbox.vim and add the following:

syntax on
colorscheme gruvbox

" Font & Colorscheme
set background=dark
set guifont=Consolas:h13
set guifontwide=NSimsun:h14

Note

This config is specific to my personal preference, checkout the readme for whatever theme you install

Now we can add our theme to .vimrc

source $HOME\.config\vim\themes\gruvbox.vim

Where to find more themes

Check out this repo

To add better syntax highlighting to your code

Add the following plugin:

Plug 'sheerun/vim-polyglot' " better syntax highlighting

• It adds the all nice little tweaks to highlight certain keywords based on the language you are coding in (using the filetype), with practically zero overhead
• Read more about the plugin here