After constantly switching schemes I "finally" settled on using nightfly.
Vim Color Schemes
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Re: Vim Color Schemes
#82After playing around with color schemes for over a decade and never really being satisfied, I made my own palette that is pretty close to the ANSI color scheme, just with more attractive shades that I copied from things like subway systems and public safety stuff (fire trucks and school busses) since so much research goes into colors being clear and unmistakable in varying conditions of weather or cleanliness. Highli…
If it's possible, would you please post a screenshot of how this looks? Not sure how to easily see this, and don't want to learn how unless I know I'll like it. Thanks!
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Re: Vim Color Schemes
#83After constantly switching schemes I "finally" settled on using nightfly. https://github.com/bluz71/vim-nightfly-guicolors
why? Asking for a friend
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#84EDIT: I see the "view on Github" link now. Wow that is subtle.
I feel like I'm missing something. I know I could just do an internet search to figure it out, but why doesn't this site include instructions on how to install one of these themes?
I've tried to get into vim in the past, but you know how it goes... limited time and all that. I've gone through vimtutor. All I can really do from memory are the basics. Some of that is still on me for not committing, but sometimes I wish more was done to make vim more approachable. I hate to say it but little things like this with the color schemes are probably a big part of what drives adoption for a lot of people because it encourages tinkering.
Re: Vim Color Schemes
#85EDIT: I see the "view on Github" link now. Wow that is subtle. I feel like I'm missing something. I know I could just do an internet search to figure it out, but why doesn't this site include instructions on how to install one of these themes? I've tried to get into vim in the past, but you know how it goes... limited time and all that. I've gone through vimtutor. All I can really do from memory are the basics. Some…
I switched from VS Code to Vim and just forced myself to go cold turkey. Turned off the mouse and arrow keys to enforce using the home row as much as possible. It was a painful month. I started with a pretty IDE-like config (I think it was called vim-ide or something like that) so it was similar enough to the functionality I was used to in VS Code. After about six months, things were basically second nature and I had a better grasp on what I needed, so I stripped a ton out and slimmed the config down a lot.
A huge advantage of vim (and emacs too) is it's so easy to extend, and I have macros and sessions and keyboard shortcuts that save me a lot of time and repetition. The initial month sucked, sure, but once I got used to the idea of modes and the keyboard shortcuts became muscle memory, I started to really see why people love it. I don't think I would ever go back to VS Code.
For reference, I work in Ruby, JS/React, and C# mostly.
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#87I tried very hard to find a satisfying light-themed color scheme for Vim, but I have not had much success so far. Most of them have a grey or white base that I don't care about; I wanted something more pastel or warmer and found solarized to be a bit too intense. I wrote and now use my own colorscheme [0] but I think there is much room for improvement. [0] https://i.redd.it/psmi7s4gcfy51.png
What terminal font are you using in that screenshot?
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#88(Neo)Vim and colour schemes are the thing that finally pushed me to use VSCode after more than a decade of using Vim. I was just so fed up with trying to find the right incantations of environment variables to get the damn things to work correctly every single time. Hats off to those still fighting the good fight.
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#89(Neo)Vim and colour schemes are the thing that finally pushed me to use VSCode after more than a decade of using Vim. I was just so fed up with trying to find the right incantations of environment variables to get the damn things to work correctly every single time. Hats off to those still fighting the good fight.
That's been my experience for 10 years. (Before that, I didn't even know Vim could have color schemes)
These things look beautiful on the web page. But dang it's so hard to get your terminal, Tmux and Vim/NeoVim to display properly. I've literally used Distinguished as my color scheme for 10 years just because I got it working, it looks nice and I really don't want to fight with configs.
I'm still not interested in using VSCode as my daily driver though. I tried it for about 6 months solid. It wasn't for me.
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#90I discovered a "color-scheme paradox": Every color scheme I enjoy using avoids using color red for anything except error messages -- which seems to be objectively a good thing -- yet such color schemes are rarely the most popular ones, which I attribute to the fact that the preview screenshots that do not use the color red look unappealing.