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The only other answer I found is from 2012, it is not accurate anymore and it is on Stack Overflow.

I would like to see them gone. I don't like any of them and they are clutter.

So, how does one remove the default colorscheme in Vim (and Neovim if it happens they're not in the same place)?

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    Since you are at it, you can also remove all the ftplugins and syntax scripts and indent scripts for languages you don't use… as well as the hundreds of thousands of unused files that clutter your machine.
    – romainl
    Commented Mar 13, 2023 at 13:50
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    "The only other answer I found is from 2012, it is not accurate anymore and it is on Stack Overflow." for the sake of completeness, a link would have been nice.
    – Friedrich
    Commented Mar 15, 2023 at 11:51
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    @romainl It's visual clutter in the sense that when I want to change colorschemes I want to only to see the list of the ones I chose. It's not clutter in absolute sense else I'd be using a magnetic needle and a steady hand.
    – cassepipe
    Commented Apr 13, 2023 at 12:43
  • It sounds as if this is a question about your particular Linux distribution; you want to change the packages or files installed by that distribution, no?
    – cjs
    Commented Apr 17, 2023 at 9:12
  • @cjs I wouldn't say that, I have tried many distributions and on each one vim had the same colorschemes so they are really vim's default colorschemes I believe. (New and better ones by romainl are coming in by the way)
    – cassepipe
    Commented Apr 17, 2023 at 10:15

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Just delete the colors folder from wherever the default install location is for your OS. Or actually delete everything in the colors folder except for the default colourscheme, otherwise id reckon you'll probably break something

I'm on Windows and I installed Neovim through scoop, so the location for me was C:\Users\madoka\scoop\apps\neovim\0.9.1\share\nvim\runtime\colors.

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They are in the colors directory of (Neo)Vim's runtime directory.

At least on Ubuntu and Fedora, these directories are

/usr/share/vim/vim${VIM_VERSION}/colors

and

/usr/share/nvim/runtime/colors

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