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user4205194
user4205194

Reputation:

How to use or convert a GVIm color scheme for VIm?

Vivify's corporation color scheme may look perfect to me, it does not quite match the screen shots once installed in VIm 7.3.

To ensure that was not an error of mine, I went back on the website to realise there were two versions ; the one you see, yellow and blue, for GVIm and another, purple and red, for VIm. I opened the file and saw that colours are sometimes defined as "cterm". I guess this means that the same value will display different colours whether I run GVIm or VIm. This might have something to do with the terminal's color mode…

Too bad — my school will not allow me to use any other text editor than VIm or EMacs. And I definitely want this color scheme to work on VIm.

I checked CSApprox but, as the name (and the documentation) implies, it is a workaround with approximative results. I also checked CSExact but, as the documentation explains, it can be a source of issues.

I would really like to have corporate's GVIm colors on VIm. Is there any converter or way to manually convert the GVIm part for VIm ? Since Google is not my friend this time…

Upvotes: 0

Views: 839

Answers (2)

werbolis
werbolis

Reputation: 11

Another approximation option: if for some reason don't want to install a plugin, you may use the python script from https://github.com/kanru/vim-colorscheme-converter to statically convert your colorschemes. Of course if you already have CSApprox, you can issue :CSApproxSnapshot command to save the converted colorscheme.

While you can't get 24-bit colors on a 256-color terminal, you may still tweak the converted colorscheme to look a bit better.

Upvotes: 1

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172510

You've already found the canonical solution - CSApprox, which converts the 24-bit RGB values used in GVIM colorschemes to the nearest available color in a (maximum 8-bit) color terminal. CSExact tries to modify the terminal's color definition for exact color reproduction. Depending on the terminal and environment, this can just work, or be finicky.

I only know of one other option: Using a terminal that has full RGB support (I think it's in KDE's Konsole), and a Vim that supports that (I remember such patches being proposed; dunno whether it's already incorporated).

For me personally, the approximate solution by CSApprox is more than enough (I'm a programmer, not a graphics artist, and this is a text editor for heaven's sake), and it's easy to use (I use the static one-time conversion).

Upvotes: 1

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