Does Vim-Polyglot plugin makes Apprentice better?

[HicaroD]

It's just a question. I love this colorscheme and I want to know if any Vim plugin for syntax highlighting changes something using this colorscheme? If it doesn't, close my issue. Thanks for the attention!

[romainl]

Ideally, syntax authors are supposed to link their custom groups to default syntax groups so that colorschemes only have to deal with the default syntax groups. That way, defining any syntax group for any filetype is almost 100% guaranteed to be transparent for any competently written colorscheme:

• colors/foo.vim handles default Comment group
• syntax/quux.vim defines QuuxBoom group and links it to default Comment group
• colors/foo.vim automatically handles QuuxBoom because it handles default Comment group

Apprentice generally honours that mechanism, with only a few filetype-specific exceptions that I find quite reasonable, so syntax scripts that honour that mechanism should work well with it, too. But, if syntax/quux.vim defines QuuXBoom without linking it to some default group, then that group will simply be ignored by Apprentice.

The onus is therefore on syntax authors to ensure that their custom groups are properly linked to default groups if they want colorschemes to handle their language properly, not on colorscheme authors to handle every special case under the sun.

[HicaroD]

Got you, thanks!