How to set a different colorscheme for each file type in Vim?

July 26, 2023 by Tarik

I’ve been looking for the same thing. This inside your .vimrc works reasonably well although not perfect.

autocmd BufEnter * colorscheme default
autocmd BufEnter *.php colorscheme Tomorrow-Night
autocmd BufEnter *.py colorscheme Tomorrow

(Note if you’re looking for a good dark color theme Tomorrow-Night looks pretty good. Very similar to theme used on Code Academy.)