Vim Color Theme

I have decided that I’m going to start working on my own vim color theme. I wanted something with a dark background but fairly bright colors. I couldn’t really find anything that suited me exactly till I came across one named wombat. Its about as close as I can find to what I want so I’ve decided to use it as a base. I haven’t really changed much from it so don’t be surprised if they look identical. I’m still looking for a good guide as to what exactly all of the variable refer to within the theme file itself. Some of them are self explanatory but a lot of them aren’t. It also doesn’t help any that some themes only specify like 8 different colors while some specify well over 50 complete with if … then statements. So if anyone knows any guides I’d be more than happy if you would share :-) .

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3 Comments

    • Paul Sadauskas
    • Posted 9 July 2007 at 2:08 AM
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    You might want to check out xterm16.vim ( http://www.stanford.edu/~gi1242/per/opensource/xterm16/xterm16-doc.html ). It has 256-color vim/gvim support, and a couple different palettes. ’standard’ is pretty bright, but I use ‘allblue’ because its lower contrast, and easier on the eyes for a full-screen gvim window.

  2. Clearly you should use inkpot like everyone else:

    http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1143

    • dirkrgently
    • Posted 9 July 2007 at 8:14 PM
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    I like the theme. Seems to me that subdued colors like Brian Carpers are what people are interested in. I don’t want to have to try and learn a new processor however, otherwise I’d try this.


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