Switching Vim colorschemes based on which keyboard layout I have active

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Did you know Vim has a client-server model baked in? Of course it does. If you run

`1`	`vim --servername LOVE`

, then in another terminal something like

`1`	`vim --servername LOVE --remote-send "<Cmd>colorscheme peachpuff<CR>"`

, you’ll find your Vim terminal switch to the creamy default theme all true gangsters love - without you actually having to do anything.

I frequently flip between a US- and Finnish-based keyboard while doing my language studies. I already had a tiny shell script in place which plays a seventh major chord every time they switch, courtesy of Sway WM:

Bash on Andrew Quinn's TILs