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Vim color theme generator

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Wow I randomly jumped to this scheme, which is actually a fairly popular [Textmate] theme known as Argonaut - http://inspiration.sweyla.com/code/seed/951824/

I guess it's not entirely random, but just has a big db of popular schemes?

From the author's website: it uses an algorithm to randomly generate pleasing colour schemes.

This is correct, well investigated!

Care to share the source?

Can you put the theme permalink in the generated theme files as a comment? Seems like it might be handy to have someday.

I'd love to see the example displayed in vimdiff format. Many good looking themes become unusable when vimdiff highlighting is applied.

Seconded. The same thing also applies to folds in vim, and sometimes to gutters and things like NERDTree or ctags scripts. It's really frustrating to have a great theme that in certain edge cases applies black text on a black background or (more commonly) white text on a light gray background.

I've never understood people who use bright green on a black background or anything with that much contrast. It feels polluting to my eyes, like radioactive waste.

High contrast should be reserved for important items. That way they can have higher contrast than the surrounding text and stand out more.

I've seen a few people who program with just flat green on black. No syntax highlighting. I cry a little inside.

How is that different from flat white on black with no syntax highlighting?

Great idea! It would be cool if you could 'lock' a color for a particular item (like the bg or strings) and then continue to look at other themes.

This would be a nice feature. I spent a few minutes refreshing and hoping to find one I liked, but none really stuck with me. If I could freeze the color of keywords, refresh, lock another color, etc etc, that would make it much more useful.

The themes definitely don't look the same in gvim as they do on the page. Hope that changes soon, cause this is awesome.

The shade of dark blue they use also appears in my .vim setup. Does anybody else find that difficult to read? Also, is there a way to tweak the colors - by giving hex codes, for example?

Here's a little snippet of elisp to automatically download and apply a random dark theme: http://gist.github.com/341879

Anyone know of a way to get a textmate theme into vim easily?

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