I wrote my own scheme:

https://github.com/strange/dotfiles/blob/master/.vim/colors/...

Python: http://files.pipsq.com/strange/python.png Erlang: http://files.pipsq.com/strange/erlang.png

I just tried this with Perl, and it looks great (the fold-column's a bit bright, but I don't have that on by default). Have you thought about uploading it to vim.org?

Thank you. Will do.

Done.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3534 https://github.com/strange/strange.vim

Those are both really nice. I'm finding after a year or so of IR_Black I'm wanting a change.

What's your terminal setup like?

Thank you.

I run tmux inside iTerm2.

I'll clean the theme up a little and make an isolated repository.

Looks decent in 8-color terminal as well.

My favorite is ir_black: http://blog.toddwerth.com/entries/show/8

IR_White, too! https://github.com/squil/vim_colors/blob/master/IR_White.vim

My favorite theme is the "Oblivion" one for gedit, but I don't use gedit, so I remade it for TextMate and Xcode 3/4.

http://natestedman.com/post/morrowind-for-textmate-xcode/

I am sitting on a mostly-done vim version right now as well, the GUI colors are all good, but I wiped out the terminal colors (I want them to just be the defaults). I'm not exactly a vim expert and I almost always use the terminal vim exclusively for git commits, which don't really need highlighting, so the motivation to fix those sort of disappeared.

Another vote for the Oblivion gedit theme. It's very nice.

This is supposed to be the version for Eclipse, but it seems that the colors are kind of different, which is a pity:

http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/?view=theme&id=1

That looks cool, please consider putting your code on github so that others can follow its development.

Here you go:

https://github.com/NateStedman/morrowind

Will upload the vim one later after I finish it up.

I like mustang as well, but I keep coming back to desert: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=105

Thanks for the kind words about molokai; took a bit to get it ported, but I've enjoyed it a lot since then. 99% of the props should go to the original authors of monokai and Hamish, though :)

Molokai ain't perfect, but I have yet to find one I like more for daily use.

Thanks for the port Tomas - been enjoying it for several years. Always leaves a 'mark' when people see it for the first time.

Wombat: http://dengmao.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/vim-color-scheme-wom...

There's also a 256 colour version for use in terminals:

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2465

I love the Railscasts theme (http://railscasts.com/episodes/258-token-fields for example), which is what I usually use with Emacs.

For iTerm2 I copied over the colors from Visor.app's theme.. but Solarized looks really nice, so maybe I'll soon be using that instead.

is there a reason why most of these color schemes (including solarized), have a very low contrast for comments - making them difficult to read. I personally use the desert colorcheme (http://hans.fugal.net/vim/colors/desert.html)

Perhaps to make them "stand-out" less (so they don't distract you when you're skimming the code).

this is interesting - colorscheme as a reflection of programming philosophy.

I actually tend to read (and write) comments a LOT. Which is why, I simply am not able to use any colorscheme that tries to hide comments.

Yeah, I'm a huge fan of desert.

I mostly use IR_black for vim and emacs, that's definitely a classic. But I'm also quite fond of a custom scheme I made; the colors mostly come from Textmate's Made of Code scheme. Here's a screenshot:

http://i.imgur.com/Ui93Q.jpg

If anyone is interested, the theme is here:

http://notendur.hi.is/ths46/thor.vim

The .vim file started out as IR_black, I just hacked at the colors until I was satisfied, so the code's not clean or anything :)

[I also have a OS X terminal theme to go with it, and an emacs version.]

Could you share the emacs theme?

I am currently using darkspectrum[1] for diff output and candycode[2] for everything else. There is a huge gallery of them, viewable with several code samples, on the Vim Color Scheme Test page[3].

[1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2215

[2] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1635

[3] http://code.google.com/p/vimcolorschemetest/

After years of dark colorschemes, I'm loving vim-github-theme[1].

[1] https://github.com/acarapetis/vim-github-theme

I really like Mustang: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2758 (Screen: http://hcalves.deviantart.com/art/Mustang-Vim-Colorscheme-98...)

For emacs: https://skitch.com/entropie/ra4ms/emacs-api.rb

Source: https://github.com/entropie/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/co...

Used 'elflord' for the longest time, but have lately switched to Koehler.

Screenshot with semi-transparent background: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/3ORpqSeM1kvLV0lceHpOjw...

I use molokai as well, but with some small tweaks (darker near-black background, lighter more visible comments, and a more visible line highlight). Inconsolata font for life, I've tried just about every other programming font out there and I always keep coming back.

I love lettuce.vim: http://i.imgur.com/67LH9.png

You can download it here: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1975

Make sure to enable 256 colors.

I am using Vim on Windows via an app called Console2.

I am not sure how it handles terminal colors. So I just configured Console2 to use Solarized colors and then tried every colorscheme in Vim.

"morning" scheme worked best for me. It is so much easier to read my coworkers crammed code.

I've actually really grown accustomed to Visor's color theme and use it for all my terminal stuff (including vim). http://visor.binaryage.com/

IR_Black for Textmate though

I use brookstream [1]. It's dark, somewhat low-contrast, with shades of blue and purple.

[1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=619

I prefer the emacs color-theme 'tangotango':

http://blog.nozav.org/post/2010/07/12/Updated-tangotango-ema...

I also love thayer for iterm2. Here's the github repo for those schemes:

https://github.com/larssmit/iTerm-2-Color-Themes

You might like my molokai-inspired color scheme for xterm: https://gist.github.com/845878

Lucius: https://github.com/vim-scripts/Lucius

I'm using a modified xoria256 in console vim. I gave it a darker background and added some missing colors.

In MacVim I tend to switch between molokai and ir_black.

I like nuvola for VIM; it has clean, solid colors.

desert256