Re: vim/colorschemes: Request For Comments

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.


--
--
You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist.
Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to.
For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php

---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/subpn5%24tkq%241%40ciao.gmane.io.