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I am trying to put the below in a file .vimrc and sourced the file, however when i vi any file it is not showing/reflecting color scheme i wanted, Is there any way i can make this work? we use common application account to log in and by default it is CSH and later we change the shell to KSH. I want to explicitly change this only for my session.

.vim.rc

Code:

set syntax on
set colorscheme murphy
set hlsearch on
HISTFILE=/tmp/.ksh_history.$$

Sourcing
. ./.vim.rc

Usually, the interpretation of color is done by the terminal emulator (konsole, gnome-terminal, etc.). So usually that's a setting of those programs. There is also a way to set the color palette for vt's as well.

Does that make sense?

sorry i don't think i understand the solution you are proposing for my question.

Alter the colors in your terminal program, not the shell. Shell doesn't have a concept of "color scheme".