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Re: Vim Colors

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Post by kolme »

gitaarik wrote: post #27

I find myself often switching between dark/light colorschemes when I'm working inside/outside. However, this is a quite annoying task, I have to change the colorscheme of my terminal, and of Vim. Besides, I have multiple Vim sessions running in various tmux/terminal tabs, so when I switch to a different tab, I have to change the colorscheme of Vim again. Then when I go inside/outside again I have to switch it all bac…

I use solarized, which has a light and a dark variant. So even when I'm in the terminal (which is always) I can easily switch between light and dark.

The solarized vim plugin even has a key binding to do this.

Re: Vim Colors

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Post by Hates_ »

stockninja wrote: post #11

Awesome post! I love the Tomorrow-Night theme: Vim: http://i.imgur.com/HBaCTAu.png Zsh: https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure On Github: https://github.com/chriskempson/tomorrow-theme/blob/master/v...

Definitely worth checking out the Base16-Tomorrow theme which is the "evolution" of Tomorrow-Night.

https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-vim

Re: Vim Colors

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Post by nathanaelkane »

bergmann wrote: post #22

When filtering by Light, some color schemes come through that are Dark. Is this a bug or do those color schemes have both light and dark versions? I looked at one of the dark "light" schemes and it didn't seem to have a light version on the github page.

You're correct, this is a bug - occasionally the app has trouble detecting which backgrounds a colorscheme supports.

I'm working on a new capture engine which fixes this.

Re: Vim Colors

#34

Post by nathanaelkane »

aequitas wrote: post #14

Could you add a preview for diff mode? It always disappoints me how (even the default) themes make vimdiff as hard to read as possible.

Definitely possible - should be no more difficult than adding support for a different language. That said, I need to work through some other features first.

Re: Vim Colors

#36

Post by pablasso »

gitaarik wrote: post #27

I find myself often switching between dark/light colorschemes when I'm working inside/outside. However, this is a quite annoying task, I have to change the colorscheme of my terminal, and of Vim. Besides, I have multiple Vim sessions running in various tmux/terminal tabs, so when I switch to a different tab, I have to change the colorscheme of Vim again. Then when I go inside/outside again I have to switch it all bac…

Don't set the colorscheme on Vim, set it on your terminal and Vim will honor it. I do that with iTerm2.

Re: Vim Colors

#37

Post by escherize »

derefr wrote: post #15
andrewguenther wrote: post #5

I wish I could choose a language to preview the schemes with. My biggest gripe with many of these themes is that is looks great in some languages and terrible for everything else.

It occurs to me that the fewer lexical types a language has, the less possible it is to highlight it in a pleasant way. Lisps and Forths (and most assembly languages) must look unpleasantly spare; and an encoding like Urbit's Nock would be literally monochrome.

Unpleasantly spare?

http://take.ms/k83XH

Re: Vim Colors

#38

Post by irth »

When I was googling for Vim color schemes some time ago I've seen that webpage. It is really nice, I like that dark/light feature (but some themes were miscategorised as dark, at least when I last checked).

Re: Vim Colors

#39

Post by gitaarik »

pablasso wrote: post #36
gitaarik wrote: post #27

I find myself often switching between dark/light colorschemes when I'm working inside/outside. However, this is a quite annoying task, I have to change the colorscheme of my terminal, and of Vim. Besides, I have multiple Vim sessions running in various tmux/terminal tabs, so when I switch to a different tab, I have to change the colorscheme of Vim again. Then when I go inside/outside again I have to switch it all bac…

Don't set the colorscheme on Vim, set it on your terminal and Vim will honor it. I do that with iTerm2.

But you'll have to restart the terminal for that, right?

Re: Vim Colors

#40

Post by polack »

stockninja wrote: post #11

Awesome post! I love the Tomorrow-Night theme: Vim: http://i.imgur.com/HBaCTAu.png Zsh: https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure On Github: https://github.com/chriskempson/tomorrow-theme/blob/master/v...

I find that theme very aesthetically pleasing, but I'm always having a hard time reading when the contrast between the text and background is so small compared to the theme vividchalk that I always fall back to. Is this something you get used to, or is it a hopeless case for me to learn to use these beautiful themes?
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