How to get the list of all installed color schemes in Vim?

Question

Is there a way to get a list of all installed color schemes in Vim? That would make very easy to select one without looking at the .vim directory.

Answer 1

A great solution, and my thanks to your contributors. For years I've been struggling with a totally crappy color scheme -- using SSH under Windows Vista to a Redhat system, terminal type xterm. The editor would come up with a black background and weird colors for various keywords. Worse -- that weird color scheme sticks in the xterm terminal after leaving Vim.

Really confusing.

Also, Backspace failed during an insert mode, which was nasty to remember -- though Delete did the same thing.

The cure --

1. In the SSH monitor, select Edit/Settings.

   a. Choose Profile Settings/Colors

   b. check 'enable ANSI colors'

   c. The standard Text colors are probably OK

2. Add these lines to $HOME/.vimrc:

   colorscheme default

   if &term == "xterm"

   set t_kb=^H

   fixdel

   endif

3. NOTE: the ^H MUST be typed as ctrl-V ctrl-H. Seems peculiar, but this seems to work.