Syntax highlighting is one of the essential features of any programmer’s IDE. A good colour theme can add a lot of clarity to the code. Vim is my favourite editor. It has pluggable syntax highlighting support. I have my share of favourite vim colorschemes (official term) or themes. I am a C/C++ developer and prefer dark themes. Here’s the alphabetical list of themes I prefer:
- badwolf
- ingretu
- molokai
- neverland-darker
- skittles_berry
- vividchalk
- wombat256mod
Sometimes I modify the themes here and there to tune them. You can download all the colorschemes listed above (with my modifications).
md5sum: 0b12fb48b123b398a49621afe5e8b701
All the themes can be found at Vim Colors.
Readers may point out popular themes like solarized but please consider the list as a personal preference.
Configuration
You can download a colorscheme file, which is essentially plugin file with .vim extension and copy it into ~/.vim/colors to use it. To use a new theme (e.g. neverland-darker), add the following to your ~/.vimrc:
syntax enable "Explicitly add 256 colorscheme support set t_Co=256 colorscheme neverland-darker
What’s more, if you want to generate your own colorscheme you can do so easily at vim.ink.
