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New Vim colour scheme – vylight

11 Comments Published March 21st, 2009 in Coding, OS X, Technology

I have recently started playing with Objective-C and Cocoa. One of the first things that I did was to tell Xcode to use MacVim as my default code editor. In the past, I have mostly been using Vim colour schemes with dark backgrounds.

However, I now wanted a colour scheme with a light background. Something that would fit in well within the Xcode environment and OS X in general. It had to be subtle and easy on the eyes. I looked around, and couldn’t find one that I liked. So I made my own. I’m calling it vylight.

Here’s a screenshot showing syntax highlighting for Objective-C. Search strings are highlighted in light yellow. Selected text is in light blue to fit in with aqua. TODOs and FIXMEs are highlighted in light green in comments.

Text highlighting in vylight

This is what omni completion looks like:

Text highlighting in vylight

Syntax highlighting in PHP:

And JavaScript:

Installing vylight

Download vylight.vim
Copy the file to your ~/.vim/colors/ directory
In Vim, do :colorscheme vylight

11 Responses to “New Vim colour scheme – vylight”

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1 Brendon Mar 23rd, 2009 at 11:35 pm

Very nice color scheme, easy on the eyes. What font are you using in those screenshots? Thanks
2 Shane Mar 24th, 2009 at 6:40 am

Thanks :-)

The font is Consolas, from Microsoft.
3 kernel sander Dec 16th, 2009 at 11:46 pm

I prefer Inconsolata, which is a Consolas-alike, designed for programming: http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

Very important info for using on the mac (it is my default terminal font): no less than 13pt, and turn anti-aliasing on. Then it looks gorgeous. For gvim I use “set guifont=Inconsolata:h14″
4 Toby Jan 11th, 2010 at 5:59 am

Awesome theme, thanks!
5 Rudolf Adamkovic Jan 31st, 2010 at 10:14 pm

This one looks really elegant. Thanks for sharing!
6 Amitava May 28th, 2010 at 7:31 am

This is a really nice, clean and elegant theme. Thanks for sharing!
7 moopet Jun 12th, 2010 at 7:14 pm

This is a really good theme.
I usually use dark colours for vim because I like the seemingly higher contrast between shades so it’s easier to see syntax at a glance, and every mostly-white theme I’d found was just unsatisfying. I’ve moved over to this for gvim and a custom dark theme for console-vim.
Good work, and thanks!
8 BrokenBrake Jul 8th, 2010 at 9:24 am

Hello! Nice screenshotes, but, from me wrong (sorry my bad english).
See my screenshote – http://brokenbrake.biz/images/339.png
Sad. My term 256 colors.
9 Shane Jul 8th, 2010 at 9:27 am

@BrokenBrake the colour scheme was designed to be used with GVim or MacVim.
10 BrokenBrake Jul 14th, 2010 at 9:49 am

Understand, I’m sorry.
You can recommend a similar theme on Linux?
11 Jack Wade Aug 31st, 2010 at 2:28 pm

This theme works quite well with gvim on Linux: http://jrgp.us/screenshots/gvim2.png

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