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A modern colorscheme for Vim that mimics the style of the classic Borland IDEs

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Borland colorscheme for Vim

The Borland colorscheme for Vim is a tribute to the classic IDE developed by Borland International Inc. in the early 1990'ties. It mimics the look of the interface and the syntax highlighting. It comes with two style variants:

Modern style

The modern style is the default. It has some colours changed slightly to make the code easier to read and to give the scheme also a more modern look:

Vim with Borland modern style

Classic style

The class style can be activated by adding let g:BorlandStyle = "classic" to your config file. It uses exactly the same colours as the original IDE:

Vim with Borland classic style

Installation

The Borland colorscheme can be easily installed via a plugin-manager like Plug or Vundle. Just add the address of the GitHub repo to your list of plugins:

  • Plug: Plug 'letorbi/vim-colors-borland'
  • Vundle: Plugin 'letorbi/vim-colors-borland'

Some might want to use Vim's native plugin-management or Pathogen instead. In that case you just have to clone the repository into the appropiate path in your Vim config-directory:

git clone https://github.com/letorbi/vim-colors-borland ~/.vim/pack/github/start/vim-colors-borland

If you don't want to use a plugin-manager at all, you can simply clone the repository and copy the file colors/borland.vim into your Vim config-directory:

git clone https://github.com/letorbi/vim-colors-borland /tmp/vim-colors-borland
cp /tmp/vim-colors-borland/colors/borland.vim ~/.vim/colors/borland.vim

Font

I recommend to use the font Perfect DOS VGA 437 by Zeh Fernando along with the Borland colorscheme. The font emulates the look of the classic VGA text mode characters and is - at least in my opinion - quite readable. Just take a look at the screenshots above to get your own impression.

If you want to use Perfect DOS VGA 437 with GTK-version of Vim (Gvim) or MacVim, just install the font and add the following lines to your config-file:

if has("gui_running")
    set guifont=Perfect\ DOS\ VGA\ 437\ Win\ 12
    set noantialias
endif

If you want to use Perfect DOS VGA 437 with the text-version of Vim or Neovim, there is no way to set the font via the config-file. You will have to change the font of your console instead.


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