Photon.vim
An elegant dark Vim colour scheme with minimal syntax highlighting that cares about the little details.
| Editor | Search |
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| Completion menu | Status line and tab line |
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The files shown in the above screenshots are from txtdb and irc.c. The font is Inconsolata created by Raph Levien.
Usage
Install this colour scheme using your preferred method, then place the following line in your Vim configuration.
colorscheme photonNo other configuration should be required.
If you are having difficulties getting the colours to look like they do in the screenshots, please create an issue and I'll be happy to try and help.
What makes Photon different? (Photon vs. Paramount)
Photon is a complete rewrite of Paramount, using RNB as the generator. It aims to take Paramount's goal of "only [putting] emphasis on the paramount" to the next level by expanding the beauty of Paramount into the rest of Vim's interface.
The main editor colours were taken from Paramount and are now used throughout the entirety of Vim's interface, such as the completion menu, help system, search matches, error messages and everything else.
The status line colours were taken from space-vim-dark and extended to the tab line. The background colour, cursor line and colour column colours were taken from Apprentice.
A new colour was introduced (the orange) and is used to place further emphasis
on the most important temporary things, such as TODOs, matching
parenthesis, first matching search result, etc.
The following images make for a good comparison of just a few of the big interface differences between Photon (left) and Paramount (right):
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Ports
I have created a basic GNU Emacs port
which is far from finished, but I'm not working on it any more as I no longer
use Emacs. If you want it anyway you can get it from the
contrib branch.
Attribution
Based on the paramount and space-vim-dark colour schemes. Made possible thanks to Romain Lafourcade's fantastic RNB Vim colour scheme template.