Sweyla's Color Theme Generator (vim, emacs, textmate, ...)

This is done very well. I realized I had spent several minutes clicking "dark" over and over again with my language of choice selected, carefully weighing the pro's and con's of each little theme.

I am one of those guys that thinks that having a universal, easy-to-understand syntax highlighting scheme is very important. I'm a vim guy, and my world was completely changed when I found that the "torte" colorscheme was packaged with vim and available on all of my machines; from my OSX box to my Linux and BSD servers. I think the default syntax highlighting scheme, especially on dark terminals, looks gross.

I move my ~/.vimrc around everywhere -- the relevant lines here are:

  syntax on
  colorscheme torte

I know there have been a lot of posts recently about vim. Just like the "day of a founder" posts, some of us really appreciate the inspiration and cool hacks, while some people think it's getting way too superfluous. Personally, I'm easily inspired :)

Hopefully this tool will help some people out, but I'd also suggest looking at the colorschemes that ship with vim first; it might save the headache of porting a scheme around all over the place if you're like me and edit code and text everywhere!