Friday, August 20, 2010

Re: Silly question maybe: What's the purpose of color schemes

On Aug 20, 10:09 am, Jeri Raye <jeri.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I see many times people create color schemes for vim.
> With special names as well.
> To me personally I have only one scheme with my personal prefferences.
> And for all my filetypes it's all the same.
>
> Why do you use several different color schemes?
> What does it help you?
> Why for example do you prefer dark color schemes (black/grey
> brackground, soft letter colors).
>
> I have a white background with black letters, or hard blue, green, red,
> brown. Very readable (at least that's my opnion) and contrasting
> keywords, syntax words, strings, ect.
>

I have several different colorschemes, all modifications of one scheme
or another grabbed from the official distribution or off the 'net
somewhere.

I usually only use one at a time, but every month or three I get tired
of it and switch to a new scheme. No real reason, just preference. I
keep the old ones around for when I get bored again.

I do have two practical reasons which I have from time-to-time that
make me switch color schemes temporarily, in which case it is nice to
have a variety of them installed:

1. When working on a laptop in a brightly-lit environment, I need to
experiment with colorschemes for readability
2. My email client at work does not support background colors on text,
but it does support foreground colors. When copy-pasting the output
of :TOhtml into my mail client at work (for sharing code snippets and
such), I need to switch to a scheme with a white background.

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