README.md

My collection of 256-color vim colorschemes.

Because I don't care about the other vim colorschemes.

Installation

Using vundle (recommended!)

% echo 'Bundle noah/vim256-color' >> ~/.vimrc:
% vim +BundleInstall!

Using Pathogen

% cd ~/.vim/bundle
% git clone --recursive git://github.com/noah/vim256-color.git

Manual install

% git clone --recursive git://github.com/noah/vim256-color.git colors
% cp ./colors/* ~/.vim/colors

Manual update

With a few exceptions (e.g., where a public git source is not available), these themes are references to git submodules. So, they can be updated en masse by doing the following:

% git submodule foreach git pull
% ./update_links.sh

May be necessary to run:

% git submodule update --init --recursive

I say "may" because let's be honest, git submodules are pure voodoo.

update_links.sh is a git pre-commit hook, I provide it here since these hooks aren't versioned by git...

Adding themes

% cd ./submodules
% git submodule add https://....
% cd ..
% ./update_links.sh
% commit + push

Including:

256-grayvim 256-jungle Apprentice badwolf base16 
beauty256 beekai blacklight bubblegum BusyBee C64.vim 
calmar256-lightdark charged-256 ChasingLogic-colorscheme-vim 
cobalt2-vim-theme codeschool coffee colorful256 crt desert256 Disciple 
donbass.vim elda.vim feral-vim FlatColor flattown flattr.vim fu 
Gentooish greenvision gruvbox.vim heroku-colorscheme icansee.vim 
iceberg.vim ingretu inkpot jellybeans.vim khaki.vim last256 leo256 
lettuce.vim lilypink Liquid-Carbon lodestone Lucius mango.vim miko 
molokai mrkn256.vim muon mushroom neverland-vim-theme oxeded.vim 
peaksea pink rdark-terminal seoul256.vim seti.vim Simple256 
southernlights Spacegray.vim strange summerfruit256.vim synic.vim 
tabula.vim tchaba The-Vim-Gardener tir\_black vilight.vim vim-atom-dark 
vim-babymate256 vim-colors_atelier_schemes vim-colorscheme-darcula 
vim-colors-codeschool vim-colors-pencil vim-colors-solarized 
vim-distinguished vim-getafe vim-hemisu vim-herokudoc-theme vim-hybrid 
vim-kolor vim-monochrome vim-phoenix vim-railscasts vim-tomorrow-theme 
vim-vividchalk vim-vividchalk-sexy wombat256 xoria256.vim Zenburn 

To format the above list:

!tr ' ' '\n' | uniq | sort -f -d  | tr '\n' ' ' | fold -w 72 -s

My favorite

Still fu

See also:

• Notes on the 256 color mode of xterm: http://frexx.de/xterm-256-notes/
• 256 colors in vim: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/256\_colors\_in\_vim
• 256 color chart: http://www.calmar.ws/vim/256-xterm-24bit-rgb-color-chart.html
• Vivify vim theme editor: http://bytefluent.com/vivify/
• terminal designer: http://terminal.sexy/