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Over recent years I've been drawn to the cross-tool themes like Nord and Dracula.

https://www.nordtheme.com/

https://draculatheme.com/

Having consistency between neovim, fzf, bat, tmux, tig and fish is lovely.

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I achieve that same consistency with virtually zero configuration by simply setting the colors in my terminal and forgetting about it. Stopped all the fiddling with color schemes quite a while ago.

Good explanation: https://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/vim-16-color/

+1 for the only solution providing consistent colors across various terminals without wasting your time (I chose noctu.vim).

I used dracula for a while, but I just can't deal with it during the day. So I've been looking for a uniform light theme for day time coding. I hope nord theme can fill in the gaps there, but it looks like it's still early days for it.

I really like papercolor for a light theme: https://github.com/NLKNguyen/papercolor-theme

Used to use Dracula, got a little uncomfortable with it for the same reasons as the grandparent commenter, switched to Papercolor and love it, it's an Industrial Design based theme and in particular the background colour is not as dark as Dracula.

Just tried Nord but to me it seems Gruvbox is more distinct with the keywords? At least I feel it easier to differentiate between different elements in code.

Yeah Nord is definitely lower contrast than most, you do get used to it though. Reminds me a bit of a blueish Zenburn.

I run the Nord theme everywhere.

oh man dracula is so good. just installed on my vscode.

25 years with vim...all the way with vscode now

With the vim plugin? If not, how did you adapt?

I might've misunderstood the question but Dracula has per-app configs available:

https://draculatheme.com/visual-studio-code

They're all separate projects on GitHub so you can usually just use them with your regular plugin manager or even a git submodule.

I think they're asking how they adapted their workflow seeing as the way you use Vim and VSCode is so wildly different.

You switched from VIM to VS Code? How was that transition?

VS Code is my vim.

I use VSCode NeoVim and clangd and a few other extensions. I've used a ton of vims and vim apps, but I'm just done with tweaking editors now. I'm happy with this setup.

My color theme is Light (Visual Studio). I like it but then color themes are personal choices.

It's a little easier if you install the vim plugin on VS Code. However, I really wish VS Code had a more comprehensive set of vim keybindings.

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