Load different colorscheme when using vimdiff

I don’t know why vim uses so many colors to highlight with, it doesn’t really help you figure out what’s going on.

I modified my colorscheme to only use one color to highlight (with another to show where theres a difference within a line) and it made all the difference.

Before

After

I did this by adding the following to the end of my colorscheme file (~/.vim/colors/mycolorscheme.vim).

highlight DiffAdd    cterm=bold ctermfg=10 ctermbg=17 gui=none guifg=bg guibg=Red
highlight DiffDelete cterm=bold ctermfg=10 ctermbg=17 gui=none guifg=bg guibg=Red
highlight DiffChange cterm=bold ctermfg=10 ctermbg=17 gui=none guifg=bg guibg=Red
highlight DiffText   cterm=bold ctermfg=10 ctermbg=88 gui=none guifg=bg guibg=Red

• cterm – sets the style
• ctermfg – set the text color
• ctermbg – set the highlighting
• DiffAdd – line was added
• DiffDelete – line was removed
• DiffChange – part of the line was changed (highlights the whole line)
• DiffText – the exact part of the line that changed

I used this link as a reference for the color numbers.

Note: I didn’t set the gui options because I use a different colorscheme for macvim/gvim