habamax / vim-polar

White background vim colorscheme

POLAR: vim colorscheme

• Built using awesome Toolkit for Vim Color Scheme Designers!

• No fancy background, pure white is here.

• No syntax with bold or italic, except Title and Directory are bold. Simple.

• Do you want light background? Check psionic.

• Do you like black background? Check habanight.

• Do you like dark gruvbox colors? Check gruvbit.

• Do you like Apprentice? Check alchemist.

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Installation

Using plugin manager

Follow your plugin manager documentation, for example, vim-plug does it this way:

" Specify a directory for plugins
call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')

Plug 'habamax/vim-polar'

" ... other plugins ...

" Initialize plugin system
call plug#end()

set termguicolors
colorscheme polar

Manual with git

Clone this repo to your vim/nvim packages directory:

Vim on Linux or OSX

git clone https://github.com/habamax/vim-polar ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start/vim-polar

Neovim on Linux or OSX

git clone https://github.com/habamax/vim-polar ~/.config/nvim/pack/plugins/start/vim-polar

Vim on Windows

git clone https://github.com/habamax/vim-polar C:/Users/USERNAME/vimfiles/pack/plugins/start/vim-polar (1)

Neovim on Windows

git clone https://github.com/habamax/vim-polar C:/Users/USERNAME/AppData/Local/nvim/pack/plugins/start/vim-polar (1)

1. Change USERNAME to your user name

Manual

• Download zip archive (available in Code › Download ZIP)

• Extract colors/polar.vim file into your vim/nvim settings directory

  • ~/.vim/colors/polar.vim — vim (linux, osx)

  • ~/vimfiles/colors/polar.vim — vim (windows)

  • ~/.config/nvim/colors/polar.vim — neovim (linux, osx)

  • ~/AppData/Local/nvim/colors/polar.vim — neovim (windows)

add to your settings:

set termguicolors
colorscheme polar

Looks good but I want italic comments

Add following to your settings file:

augroup colorscheme_change | au!
    au ColorScheme polar hi Comment gui=italic cterm=italic
augroup END

set termguicolors
colorscheme polar

And bold statements

Add following to your settings file:

func! s:polar_setup() abort
    hi Comment gui=italic cterm=italic
    hi Statement gui=bold cterm=bold
endfunc

augroup colorscheme_change | au!
    au ColorScheme polar call s:polar_setup()
augroup END

set termguicolors
colorscheme polar

And VertSplit without background colors

Add following to your settings file:

func! s:polar_setup() abort
    hi Comment gui=italic cterm=italic
    hi Statement gui=bold cterm=bold
    hi VertSplit guibg=NONE ctermbg=NONE
endfunc

augroup colorscheme_change | au!
    au ColorScheme polar call s:polar_setup()
augroup END

set termguicolors
colorscheme polar

What about terminals with semi-transparent backgrounds?

Add this:

let g:polar_transp_bg = v:true