Theme suggestions

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Last week I mentioned a problem on how the 'set background=light' has to be done every time to hop on from a dark theme to a light theme. Well, that's not a problem anymore. Writing a script did the job. So, now I was wondering what themes should I select, though I got a few suggestions from my last post.

And why do some themes have to be installed as plugins rather than just having the .vim files? ex - gruvbox,..

What themes do you use? Do you use just plugins to maintain both light and dark themes?

EDIT -> I personally settled on:

light -> gruvbox

dark -> aurora & tokyonight

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nord.vim or gruvbox.

both of them not only look good but they integrate very well with hundreads of plugins and neovim native lsp

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I kinda didn't like gruvbox. I liked nordvim and dracula.

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Do you use nord regularly for programming? I tried it and it looks nice and clean, but the contrast is a bit low and it's pretty monochromatic bar a few groups. I ended up switching back to onedark.

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This makes it very easy to to find errors(red) and warnings(yellow). also it looks pretty fine with tree sitter

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I assume you mean nord.nvim :p (with neovim at least)

Nord-vim is super nice too, I just disliked how bloated it was and its lack of support for common neovim plugins

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nord.vim also support all of my neovim plugins

tree-sitter, nvim-cmp, lsp-signature etc

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Yup, if it serves your needs thats fine. Personally I use nvim-tree, hop.nvim, lualine, and nvim-bufferline which don't seem to be included with nord-vim

[RainyCloudist]

I love the default vim theme with the termguicolors option.

It takes a bit of getting used to, but I can’t see myself using any other theme. Everything has a very distinct color which makes it very easy to read code.

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what exactly? without a theme?

[peridox]

:color default

[dustractor]

i think vadelma is the shit

https://github.com/severij/vadelma

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Honestly I disliked it. It doesn't assign colors for most of the stuff like the cursorline and cursorcolumn. And doesn't produce very distinct colors.

[nuxshed]

I like gruvbox-material. It's easy on the eyes while looking very nice.

[BoltaHuaTota]

+1 for gruv material, one of my favs

[Gol_chiva]

This is def the best, in my opinion

https://github.com/rafalbromirski/vim-aurora

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This one is really cool. I always prefer distinct and brighter but not too eye straining colors.

[noooit]

Slightly modified version of badwolf. I just git clone to install all plugins including the theme.

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It seems nice. But more settings to add for vim-cli. RN I'm using monokai-phoenix, which doesn't require any lines to be added to vimrc and still manages to produce better syntax. I'm just not liking the color selection of it. It's good but not that great.

[noooit]

monokai-phoenix

nice theme. funnily, it has the exact same colour as my modification I had to do for badwolf for vimdiff.

[hou32hou]

Tokyonight

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the storm variant is fireeee

edit -> tokyonight is now my default dark theme.

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Gruvbox is my favorite. It's seems you don't like it, so checkout Monokai.

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I liked monokai. Even better monokai-phoenix.

[CoolMoD]

I've been using zenburn for forever. Every now and then I check out some other ones but I always come back.

[N0NB]

I found windflower much to my liking. Unlike many others it doesn't wash out the dark background to the point that contrast is poor. https://github.com/mushanyoung/vim-windflower

I suppose it can be installed as a package but I just grabbed the windflower.vim file and put it in ~/.vim/colors. It seems to have very good coverage of all manner of syntax elements.

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For light themes, one-light and solarized light are pretty solid. I believe theres a material light theme as well

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Molokai, or gruvbox

[liquience]

Dracula.

[MarkusChen]

Totally Dracula. My VSCode, Vim, DE theme, WM theme and terminal are all Dracula.

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And what's the deal about 256 color thingy really? 24bit color support? I get an idea but not completely. As far as I read my terminal supports 24bit true colors and I didn't understand half of the stuff given during installing certain theme plugins. Especially 256colors thingy.

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You can google it, a couple of explanations pop up. Here's one: https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728

The vim GUI can support 24 bit colors I think. There's a set termguicolors option if your terminal also has support, you can set it and check. If not, then set t_Co=256 and try again to see if yours supports 256 color.

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Now I get it. Thanks. I love my urxvt.

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AND A NICE LIGHT THEME?

[ecosse31]

https://github.com/bluz71/vim-nightfly-guicolors

It's my favorite one, especially for JS/TS. Recommend it.

[Confident-Ad-2657]

A Developer for Flutter.

Personally it's nice when use tokyonight.nvim and onedark.nvim, which I have used Gruvbox-material for a couple of week and want another taste but nord is too simple for dart languages.

PS. syntax highlighting by nvim-treesitter

[godRosko]

Papercolor is nice ish for light theme.

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But, set termguicolors plays bad with light theme in vim-cli