

- #Macvim background color install
- #Macvim background color archive
- #Macvim background color full
- #Macvim background color windows
It has a very distinct yellow-ish color palette, which makes it stand out from the crowd. Gruvbox is definitely one of the most recognizable themes around there. Among the two dark flavours of this theme, I personally prefer the mirage one that I find more balanced, the dark version being too contrasted to my liking (although very good as well). The three of them are really nice, I've used them extensively for a while before I found out palenight. Simple, Bright and Elegant theme for modern Vims.Īyu comes in three different flavors : dark, mirage (dark, but less dark), and light. It's a onedark-ish theme, with a yellow-orange and purple flavour, making it more lively and less boring than most others out there, in my opinion. Even if the repository does not show much activity, this must not prevent you from testing this gorgeous theme. It's one of those themes based on onedark, but to me, it's one of the best out there. As usual, I've kept on testing other color schemes, but always quickly came back to this one. I came across it months ago, and it's been my main theme since then. This one is my absolute favorite, and without a doubt, the less well-known option of all themes I'm going to cover in this post. Much of the work is based on the lovely onedark.vim color scheme. palenightĪ dark color scheme for Vim/Neovim based off the Material Pale Night color scheme. This selection should allow you to explore other options. Lately, lots of color schemes have been inspired by the original One Dark color scheme of the Atom Editor and by the Google Material color palette, and as a consequence, all those themes can sometimes feel all pretty similar.

It seems dark themes are prominent in the vim color schemes community, and you have lots of different options in this category. I'll still cover two light color schemes that I really appreciate at the end of this post. I am very much of a dark-theme guy, so most of my recommendations here will be dark themes. I mainly work with ruby, javascript and markdown on a daily basis, with Neovim in a regular iTerm2 terminal (all those themes should render pretty well in modern vims as well, as long as you have true colors configured).

This post merely reflects my own tastes and the themes listed here are the ones that I prefer and have worked with the most. So here's a selection of the color schemes I've used the most over the past few years. Eventually, many of the color schemes that were once popular now feel outdated, compared to more recent options. In the same time, several "modern" text editors appeared and encounter success those last years such as Sublime Text, Atom, VS Code, and they all came with new pretty solid default color schemes, when previously, most editors came with… let's say basic color schemes. Since the introduction of true colors terminals, you're not limited to a 256 colors palette anymore and therefore, lots of new fancy color schemes appeared over the course of the past years. The color scheme landscape has changed a lot lately.
#Macvim background color archive
If you want other good ideas for plugins or color schemes, browse Vim.org's scripts archive sorted by highest rated or most downloads.I've been a vim user for a long time now, and a color schemes nerd for quite a while as well.
#Macvim background color windows
If you want your Vim windows to look just so, then use MacVim (highly recommended in any case, and go for the latest snapshot which is years newer than the "featured download", and just as stable if not more so). So most of the more elaborate "theme"-oriented color schemes aren't going to work in Terminal.app no matter what.
#Macvim background color install
Many Vim color schemes only support the latter (24bit color), while Terminal.app only supports 16 colors (and then only with some unusable shades if you want to use anything that shows colors in Terminal.app, you really need to install TerminalColours, probably the version patched for Snow Leopard, and tweak the colors to be more usable).
#Macvim background color full
Note that Vim offers several levels of color support: all the way from only-inverse/bold/underline on an old-school terminal, through support for color terminals (with 16, 88, or 256 colors available), to full-blown GUI environments (with full 24-bit color, 16 million shades available).

For HTML/CSS-specific coding, there's ZenCoding, which is quite popular.Īs far as colors go, I use MacVim's default, with a few minor tweaks and the background color set to LemonChiffon3 (sort of a light tan, much easier on the eyes than pure white). I think Coda's clips are somewhat a clone of TextMate's snippets and there are a bunch of clones of that on vim.org try snipMate, or SuperTab continued, or snippetsEmu.
