{"id":345,"date":"2014-05-20T02:40:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T00:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/log.or.cz\/?p=345"},"modified":"2014-05-20T02:40:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T00:40:14","slug":"a-16-color-default-ish-vim-color-scheme-for-xterm-256color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"A 16-color default-ish vim color scheme for xterm-256color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently switched to xterm-256color in my konsole, but I found that vim looks exceedingly <em>ugly<\/em>, unfortunately. The colors were all washed out and difficult to read with reduced brightness. I decided to explore some alternative color schemes, including popular ones like solarized etc., but they just don&#8217;t work for me &#8211; I have the default color scheme burned into my mind and I really like its high contrast even though I can easily stare at it for 12+ hours in a row. It also works great even in adverse light coditions on a notebook.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I didn&#8217;t find any dark vim color scheme that would just look like its default 16-color color scheme. (Light background color scheme looks mostly the same in 16 and 256 colors by default.) So I had to create my own &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/pasky.or.cz\/dev\/vim\/256like16.vim\">256like16.vim<\/a>, drop it in <tt>~\/.vim\/colors<\/tt>. You may want to edit yours to add some more bolds to make it look <em>exactly<\/em> like the 16-color scheme, but I ended up liking this one more, after all.<\/p>\n<p>(You will need to install <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vim.org\/scripts\/script.php?script_id=2682\">colorsupport.vim<\/a> so that GUI color settings are used in the 256-color terminal. This particular script worked by far the best for me, and :ColorSchemeBrowse is also great when exploring schemes.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently switched to xterm-256color in my konsole, but I found that vim looks exceedingly ugly, unfortunately. The colors were all washed out and difficult to read with reduced brightness. I decided to explore some alternative color schemes, including popular ones like solarized etc., but they just don&#8217;t work for me &#8211; I have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[138,22],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-vim","tag-xterm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}