vim-code-dark
vim-code-dark
is a dark color scheme for Vim heavily inspired by the look of the Dark+ scheme of Visual Studio Code. While many of the colors are same, there are additional colors for specific usage or reserved for future use. The scheme also defines specific GUI colors (e.g. popup menu) and fully supports vim-airline
.
❗ To install and enable this colorscheme, read installation instructions.
This colorscheme does also support 256 and 8/16 color terminals. See installation instructions step 3.
Screenshots
gVim (full support)
256-color terminals (nearest available colors)
8/16-color terminals (partial support)
Color Palette
Installation
1) Download
Simply as any other Vim plugins: download manually or follow the standard procedure of your plugin manager:
- Vundle
Plugin 'tomasiser/vim-code-dark'
- vim-plug
Plug 'tomasiser/vim-code-dark'
- manual
- copy all of the files to
~/.vim
(or$HOME\vimfiles
on Windows) directory
.vimrc
2) Enable in Add the following line to your .vimrc
:
colorscheme codedark
If you have vim-airline
, you can also enable the provided theme:
let g:airline_theme = 'codedark'
3) Terminal support
3.1) If you use gVim
👍 The colorscheme will work out of the box. No need to setup anything else!
3.2) If you use a terminal with at least 256 colors
(e.g. GNOME Terminal, newest Bash for Windows)
If your terminal supports 256 and more colors (see this script if you want to test your terminal), this colorscheme should automatically use closest available colors to match the palette. You may need to set t_Co
to 256 and possibly also reset the t_ut
value in your .vimrc
before setting the colorscheme:
set t_Co=256
set t_ut=
colorscheme codedark
(Additionally, if you don't want to or cannot use t_Co
, you can let g:codedark_term256=1
.)
3.3) If you use a terminal with only 8 or 16 colors
❗ Before following those steps, first try step 3.2) - maybe your terminal does support 256 colors!
If your terminal does not support 256 colors, you may want to change your terminal colors:
3.3.1) Some Unix terminals
Clone base16-shell
into ~/.config/base16-shell
:
git clone https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-shell.git ~/.config/base16-shell
Then copy a script from this (vim-code-dark
) repository (base16/templates/shell/scripts/base16-codedark.sh
) into ~/.config/base16-shell/scripts
.
Following the instructions from base16-shell
, you should now modify your ~/.bashrc
or ~/.zshrc
(depending on your shell) and insert the following lines:
BASE16_SHELL=$HOME/.config/base16-shell/
[ -n "$PS1" ] && [ -s $BASE16_SHELL/profile_helper.sh ] && eval "$($BASE16_SHELL/profile_helper.sh)"
Now start a new shell and type the following command: base16_codedark
.
You should now be able to use Vim with your new colorscheme.
3.3.2) iTerm2
iTerm2 should actually support 256 colors, try setting Report Terminal Type
to xterm-256color
and follow step 3.2). If it does not work, you can manually modify your terminal colors in settings (CMD+i
, Colors tab) following the color palette picture. You will have to choose which color to use as red, blue etc. according to your personal preferences.
3.3.3) PuTTY
PuTTY should actually support 256 colors, try following steps on StackOverflow. If it does not work, run base16/templates/putty/putty/base16-codedark.reg
to modify your registry, then run PuTTY and load codedark
in the session list. This will modify your PuTTY terminal colors.
FAQ
The background color in my terminal is wrong when there is no text!
Try resetting the t_ut
value in your .vimrc
as described here:
set t_Co=256
set t_ut=
colorscheme codedark
What is and how to enable the conservative mode?
If you don't like many colors and prefer the conservative style of the standard Visual Studio, you can try the conservative mode with reduced number of colors. To enable it, put the following line to your .vimrc
before setting the scheme, like so:
let g:codedark_conservative = 1
colorscheme codedark
Something is broken but I know how to fix it!
Pull requests are welcome! Feel free to send one with an explanation!
Why does file syntax not look exactly like in Visual Studio Code?
Because Vim uses different syntax rules. This is just a colorscheme for vim, not a syntax definition.
My favourite language has wrong / bad / awful colors!
There are a lot of syntax definitions with different highlight groups. Feel free to send a pull request with additional highlight groups!
What setup can I see on the first screenshots?
Screenshots come from gVim on Windows with the following font options and vim-airline
enabled.
set enc=utf-8
set guifont=Powerline_Consolas:h11
set renderoptions=type:directx,gamma:1.5,contrast:0.5,geom:1,renmode:5,taamode:1,level:0.5