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Color Schemes

• All

• vim-monokai - Monokai color scheme for Vim converted with coloration from Textmate theme with the same name.

• Molokai - color scheme for Vim

• Happy Hacking

• Oceanic-Next.vim - Oceanic Next theme for neovim

• Tomorrow Theme

• Nightfox - 🦊A highly customizable theme for vim and neovim with support for lsp, treesitter and a variety of plugins.

• Catppuccin - 🍨 Soothing pastel theme for (Neo)vim

• kuro.vim

• EMBARK

• PaperColor

• vim-colors-xcode - Xcode 11’s dark and light colourschemes for Vim

• gruvbox - Retro groove color scheme for Vim

• inkpot - Inkpot 88/256 Colour Scheme for Vim

• Nord - An arctic, north-bluish color palette.

• Solarized Dark

• onedark.vim - A dark Vim/Neovim color scheme inspired by Atom's One Dark syntax theme.

• Bad Wolf

• seoul256.vim - 🌳 Low-contrast Vim color scheme based on Seoul Colors

• Base16 Vim

• Apprentice - A dark, low-contrast, Vim colorscheme.

• ICEBERG - 🇦🇶 Bluish color scheme for Vim and Neovim

• ayu.vim - Modern theme for modern VIMs

• Challenger Deep Theme - FlatColor vim colorscheme

• jellybeans.vim - A colorful, dark color scheme for Vim.

• vim.one - Adaptation of one-light and one-dark colorschemes for Vim

• SOURCERER

• vim-colors-meh - My perpetually WIP colorscheme

• desertink.vim - A Vim colorscheme based on desert.

• sonokai - High Contrast & Vivid Color Scheme based on Monokai Pro

• Simple Black - A black colorscheme for vim, real black background, #000000

• Orbital - Dark blue base16 theme for 256-color terminals

• moonfly - A dark charcoal theme for modern Neovim & classic Vim

• OneDark.nvim - One dark and light colorscheme for neovim >= 0.5.0 written in lua based on Atom's One Dark and Light theme. Additionally, it comes with 5 color variant styles

• Dracula - 🧛🏻‍♂️ Dark theme for Vim

• ZENBURN - Zenburn is a low-contrast color scheme for Vim.

• Alduin

• BLAQUEMAGICK - greyscale monochrome with a blue highlight vim colorscheme

• Hemisu - A Vim color scheme with dark and light variants

• nofrils - An extremely minimalist colorscheme, even opting out of the second L in frills

• Fahrenheit - Dark, warm base16 Vim theme for 256-color terminals

• Quantum - A Material color scheme for Vim.

• vim-hybrid-material - Material color scheme for Vim based on w0ng/vim-hybrid color scheme

• blame.vim

• Railscasts - A GUI & 256 color port of the Railscasts Textmate theme to Vim

• Mustang

• Yin-Yang - Low contrast black/white color scheme for Vim

• NeoDark - Dark theme for NeoVim

• jjstyle

• SMYCK

• ZenGarden - Calm color scheme for vim/neovim

• zazen

• Zenbones - 🪨 A collection of contrast-based Vim/Neovim colorschemes

• Friffle - Simple vim & neovim colorscheme theme

• VIM (BETA) - 320+ color themes for VIM.

• vim-atom-dark - A vim theme inspired by Atom's default dark theme

• vim-aurora - dark theme for vim

• bogster

• palenight.vim - Soothing color scheme for your favorite [best] text editor

• Spaceduck 🚀🦆 - 🚀 🦆 An intergalactic space theme for Vim, Terminal, and more!

• melange.vim - 🗡️ Warm color scheme for Neovim and beyond

• Tokyo Night - 🏙 A clean, dark Neovim theme written in Lua, with support for lsp, treesitter and lots of plugins. Includes additional themes for Kitty, Alacritty, iTerm and Fish.

• Distinguished - A dark vim color scheme for 256-color terminals.

• Distill - dark "mid-contrast" theme for neovim/gvim

Installation

1. Download monokai color scheme:

       https://github.com/ku1ik/vim-monokai

2. Put monokai.vim file in your ~/.vim/colors/ directory

       unzip vim-monokai-master.zip
   
       cd vim-monokai-master
   
       mv colors ~/.vim

3. and add the following line to your ~/.vimrc:

       vi ~/.vimrc
   
       syntax enable        " eneble colorscheme monokai
       set background=dark
       colorscheme monokai

4. Save and exit:

       wq

Plugins

• EasyMotion - EasyMotion provides a much simpler way to use some motions in vim.

• vim-sneak - The missing motion for Vim 👟

• Indent Guides - A Vim plugin for visually displaying indent levels in code

• indentLine - A vim plugin to display the indention levels with thin vertical lines

• Rainbow Parentheses - Better Rainbow Parentheses

• Airline - lean & mean status/tabline for vim that's light as air

• Lightline

• GitGutter

• Signify

• ShowMarks

• Signature

• Syntastic

• Ale

• CtrlP

• Startify

• NERDTree

• Dirvish

file managers

    highlight LineNr ctermfg=grey ctermbg=white guibg=white guifg=grey
    
    ctermbg for command-line vim
    guibg for graphical vim (gvim, macvim, etc), respectively

    ctermfg, guifg - text color
    ctermfg, guibg - background color

!Note that if you're using a GUI version of vim, .gvimrc color settings get applied second and can clobber the ones in .vimrc

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