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Re: Vim Color Schemes

#101
For some reason some themes have wrong colours, for example desert256:

https://vimcolorschemes.com/vim-scripts/desert256.vim

Here’s more or less how it’s supposed to look: http://hans.fugal.net/vim/colors/desert.html (it’s the original desert theme, not the desert256 fork, but it’s still much closer than the vimcolorschemes.com rendering)

Re: Vim Color Schemes

#102
post #81

After constantly switching schemes I "finally" settled on using nightfly. https://github.com/bluz71/vim-nightfly-guicolors

why? Asking for a friend

I prefer dark color schemes. And nightfly has just the right amount of contrast in my opinion which dark schemes often seem to lack.

Re: Vim Color Schemes

#103

FWIW, modern reworks of the built-in colorschemes are on their way [1]. We plan to add more third-party colorschemes in the future as we streamline the creation and validation process. [1] https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/9795

Nice. I love that the OP has so many themes to pick from but repeatedly trying 3rd-party color schemes over the years only made me realize how many criteria have to be met for a color scheme to actually work for me in practice (apparently I'm very picky when it comes to that). I have yet to find one that beats vim's `default` theme. The only tweak I made is to not use underline for the current line but a slightly dar…

One problem vim's default color scheme is, with the default configuration, it assumes a light background. This leads to having to deal with dark blue text on black background.

I either have to change vim's background setting from dark to light or use a different color scheme like zellner.

Re: Vim Color Schemes

#104
post #98

FWIW, modern reworks of the built-in colorschemes are on their way [1]. We plan to add more third-party colorschemes in the future as we streamline the creation and validation process. [1] https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/9795

When is this going to be pulled in?

We would like the remakes to be included in 9.0… for which there is no precise ETA yet.

Re: Vim Color Schemes

#105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

updated.

you updated with a screenshot of the color palette, I think everyone wanted to see what the actual vim session looks like

Re: Vim Color Schemes

#106
post #14

Over recent years I've been drawn to the cross-tool themes like Nord and Dracula. https://www.nordtheme.com/ https://draculatheme.com/ Having consistency between neovim, fzf, bat, tmux, tig and fish is lovely.

I achieve that same consistency with virtually zero configuration by simply setting the colors in my terminal and forgetting about it. Stopped all the fiddling with color schemes quite a while ago. Good explanation: https://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/vim-16-color/

+1 for the only solution providing consistent colors across various terminals without wasting your time (I chose noctu.vim).

Re: Vim Color Schemes

#108
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used dracula for a while, but I just can't deal with it during the day. So I've been looking for a uniform light theme for day time coding. I hope nord theme can fill in the gaps there, but it looks like it's still early days for it.

I really like papercolor for a light theme: https://github.com/NLKNguyen/papercolor-theme

Used to use Dracula, got a little uncomfortable with it for the same reasons as the grandparent commenter, switched to Papercolor and love it, it's an Industrial Design based theme and in particular the background colour is not as dark as Dracula.

Re: Vim Color Schemes

#109

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You switched from VIM to VS Code? How was that transition?

VS Code is my vim. I use VSCode NeoVim and clangd and a few other extensions. I've used a ton of vims and vim apps, but I'm just done with tweaking editors now. I'm happy with this setup. My color theme is Light (Visual Studio) . I like it but then color themes are personal choices.

It's a little easier if you install the vim plugin on VS Code. However, I really wish VS Code had a more comprehensive set of vim keybindings.

Re: Vim Color Schemes

#110

FWIW, modern reworks of the built-in colorschemes are on their way [1]. We plan to add more third-party colorschemes in the future as we streamline the creation and validation process. [1] https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/9795

Nice. I love that the OP has so many themes to pick from but repeatedly trying 3rd-party color schemes over the years only made me realize how many criteria have to be met for a color scheme to actually work for me in practice (apparently I'm very picky when it comes to that). I have yet to find one that beats vim's `default` theme. The only tweak I made is to not use underline for the current line but a slightly dar…

The default colorscheme is a mixed bag.

On one hand, you have a quite reasonable syntax highlighting and highlight groups that mostly use the so-called ANSI colors of the underlying terminal emulator, which are all good things.

On the other hand, the highlighting of UI elements is clearly a second thought, a light background is assumed by default, the highlight group are inconsistent, and Vim's own heuristics for determining what features are supported by the underlying terminal emulator are beyond broken.

Some of those issues could be easily fixable at a high level if the default colorscheme was actually a colorscheme like blue or desert but it is not so, as we focused our efforts on the latter, we didn't try to fix default.

It is on our radar, though.

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