New colorschemes

[0matgal0]

Please consider updating existing colorscheme / adding new ones.

Most of the colorschemes bundled with vim are gvim only or look bad in terminal.

Better colorschemes are a must.

[chrisbra]

Well, colorschemes are easy enough to find, e.g. vim-colorschemes That is not really a bug.

[ZyX-I]

Availability of third-party colorschemes does not make bundled ones look good in terminal. It looks like bundled ones are staying with 4- or 3-bit colors while you can hardly find terminal emulator with does not support 8-bit colors. I would say it is a valid request to ship some good-looking default256 colorscheme used by default when terminal was detected to support 8-bit colors.

[vim-ml]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Pavlov ***@***.***> wrote: Availability of third-party colorschemes does not make bundled ones look good in terminal. It looks like bundled ones are staying with 4- or 3-bit colors while you can hardly find terminal emulator with does not support 8-bit colors. I would say it is a valid request to ship some good-looking default256 colorscheme used by default when terminal was detected to support 8-bit colors.

I would also chime in to suggest bundling of truecolor compatible schemes. If anyone is interested in doing this, pick your favorites and talk to the creator about possible bundling with Vim.

[brammool]

I hardly ever get patches for color schemes, even though there are likely several that got outdated, they don't include definitions for highlight groups added later.
At the same time, removing a color scheme will always hurt those people who were using them anyway (and perhaps put their own fixes on top of it).
Thus best is if we can:

1. Make existing color schemes work well
2. Add a few color schemes that take advantage of terminals that support many colors.

[chrisbra]

So any suggestions what colorschemes should be bundled (provided that the license allows distribution with Vim)? Should look fine in the GUI and in the terminal (with truecolor and 256 colors).

[luchr]

So any suggestions what colorschemes should be bundled?

Solarized
see also vim-colors-solarized

[CaioBianchi]

If there's any colorscheme that should be bundled in, that would have to be Solarized.

[chrisbra]

however, that one hasn't been updated in years, so likely does not work with termguicolors

[luchr]

I use it for both gvim and vim (in mate-terminal) with the following settings:

let g:solarized_visibility="low"
let g:solarized_termcolors=256
let g:solarized_contrast="high"

if has('gui_running')
   colorscheme solarized
else
   if exists("&tgc")
       set tgc | colorscheme solarized
   else
       colorscheme koehler
   endif
endif

[I use it also inside vim inside tmux with the additional tmux setting set-option -g terminal-overrides ",xterm:Tc".]

[vim-ml]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Christian Brabandt ***@***.***> wrote: So any suggestions what colorschemes should be bundled (provided that the license allows distribution with Vim)? Should look fine in the GUI and in the terminal (with truecolor and 256 colors).

I was going to recommend solarized as it is the only popular one I know of. Unfortunately it would probably take someone with an artistic eye going through some of the color schemes, and that type of person seems to be rare in FOSS communities. Regardless of how many suggestions are brought up immediately, I think having this conversation on the list is helpful for future contributors. Something I forgot to bring up is that many terminals allow their own themeing that is not visible to applications run in them - does anyone know to what extent this is responsible for the poor look of the bundled themes?

[lifepillar]

So any suggestions what colorschemes should be bundled (provided that the license allows distribution with Vim)? Should look fine in the GUI and in the terminal (with truecolor and 256 colors).

Above all, gruvbox. But also:

• seoul256;
• Lucario;
• Pencil;
• PaperColor;
• Alduin;
• Base2Tone;
• Jellybeans.
• Tomorrow.

They all support true colors, and their 256-color approximations look reasonably good (I haven't checked their licenses).

I maintain a version of Solarized that supports true colors (called Solarized8), but I have dropped the 256-color variant of the original Solarized because it just looked… wrong.

[chrisbra]

I would also like to see vim-molokai (unfortunately, does not seem to support termguicolors, vim-monokai (does not support 16 colors, not sure about termguicolors) and vim-janah (does not support 16 colors, but supports termguicolors) and perhaps base16-default. At least those were the ones besides gruvbox, that I have enjoyed to use in the past.