ianchanning / vim-selenized

Simple repo to allow easy install of colorscheme

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There are some design decisions that need to be made to complete Vim support. Your feedback would be very helpful - please comment on issue 68 and issue 74.

Installation

1. Copy theme file(s) inside your $HOME/.vim/colors/ directory (colors/selenized.vim for dark&light themes, colors/selenized_bw.vim for black&white themes).
2. Inside vim, use :colorscheme selenized to switch colorscheme to selenized. You can also make this setting permanent by adding line colorscheme selenized to your .vimrc.
3. Use set background=dark and set background=light to switch between versions

There are some additional steps if you use vim inside terminal.

Truecolor-enabled terminals

If your terminal supports true color, add set termguicolors to your .vimrc.

Other terminals

1. Configure your terminal emulator (e.g. gnome-terminal, iTerm etc.) to use selenized palette
2. You may have to add set t_Co=16 to your .vimrc to instruct Vim to use ANSI colors rather then trying 256-color variant of the palette (which is only an approximation, see this issue for more details)

Syntax coloring choices

Selenized aims to have a similar feel to Solarized, but it doesn't follow all Solarized coloring choices. In particular, I believe that using green for keywords doesn't look good, so I've made them yellow (swapping with types, which are yellow in Solarized). If you don't like this choice, add this to your .vimrc:

let g:selenized_green_keywords=1

Also note that selenized uses orange and violet only in the GUI/truecolor version of the theme. That's because they are not available in ANSI color palette (Solarized worked around this with an ugly hack, but I prefer to keep compatibility).

Contributing

Selenized theme files are generated using vim-colortemplate. You need to install the plugin (note that it requires Vim 8), edit .colortemplate files and run :Colortemplate! to regenerate theme files.

It's quite straighforward to use, and in case anything is not clear the documentation is really helpful.