Re: [VIM] Re: vim/colorschemes: Request For Comments

Uhm, what should I notice? I'm using murphy in gvim and still I've to use
CSApprox to have it behaving closely in a terminal. Maybe I'm doing something
wrong. I used vundle to install it.

Walter

On Sun, 13 Feb 2022, Lifepillar wrote:

> On 2022-02-12, Romain Lafourcade <romainlafourcade@gmail.com> wrote:
>> thanks to the hard work of a small but motivated team, a
>> first milestone is finally within reach
>
> As a mostly passive observer of the development of this project, I feel
> compelled to thank you for undertaking this time-consuming task with
> invincible passion! I can testify that it was no mean feat.
>
>> - due to the _many_ inconsistencies plaguing the originals, we generally
>> favored the _spirit_ to the _letter_ so the peachpuff remake (to really
>> pick a random example) _is not the original peachpuff_; it still retains
>> much of what made peachpuff peachpuff but in a much more usable and
>> up-to-date package.
>
> Compatibility (with terminal and GUI environments, and with Vim's own
> highlighting definitions) has been greatly improved. This makes the user
> experience so much better: to pick a random example, peachpuff used only
> 0-15 colors in terminals, so activating it in 256-color capable
> terminals would leave the user wondering why it didn't look like
> peachpuff (or worse, why it looked completely different in different
> terminals). But the number of improvements is really huge.
>
> Thanks again for setting the path forward and raising the bar for color
> schemes: hopefully, it will become now easier to add new ones, finally
> pushing forward https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1665. Personally, I'd
> like to see a joint effort to produce an original and fresh color scheme
> created specifically for Vim (9?), in the same way as some other editors
> have "their own" branding color scheme. But maybe this is wishful
> thinking...
>
> Life.
>
>
>

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