Re: colours for syntax highlighting

I use "darkblue" where I don't care for any particular scheme other than one having decent contrast between text & dark background. (In my own $ENV I have my own color schemes which is not as complete (due to incomplete syntax matching) as the ones included with vim, and I could not care less.) In any case I have found colors for word completion list & comment color (dark blue on black background) to be horrible in the default/no particular scheme (vim 7, 8), and not good enough under "darkblue".

When I use "darkblue", I have lightly modified some of the colors ...

...
 " Removed custom syntax matching & associated highlight colors.

 "  black/grey: 0, 0c0c0c                    red: 1, fc3c4c
 "       green: 2, 0cdc0c/33ff33    brown/yellow: 3, fcfc00
 "        blue: 4, 4c4cdc/000020         magenta: 5, ac4cac/bc40bc
 "        cyan: 6, 3cbcfc             grey/white: 7, dcdcdc/fcfcfc
 "
 hi Comment       cterm=none ctermfg=5
 hi Identifier    cterm=bold  "ctermfg=6*

 hi logLevelNormal      cterm=none ctermfg=2
 hi logLevelNormalMess  cterm=none ctermfg=2
 "
 hi logLevelWarn      cterm=bold ctermfg=3*
 hi logLevelWarnMess  cterm=bold ctermfg=3*
 "
 hi logLevelErr       cterm=bold ctermfg=1*
 hi logLevelErrMess   cterm=bold ctermfg=1*

 " Normal completion menu item;
 hi Pmenu       term=reverse       cterm=bold          ctermfg=0  cter
+mbg=6
 " selected item;
 hi PmenuSel    term=reverse,bold  cterm=bold          ctermfg=7  cter
+mbg=4
 " scrollbar;
 hi PmenuSbar   term=reverse       cterm=bold          ctermfg=0  cter
+mbg=2
 " 'thumb' of the scrollbar.
 hi PmenuThumb  term=reverse       cterm=bold,reverse  ctermfg=0  cter
+mbg=2
 "
 " Have not seen these in GUI in a long time.
 "hi Pmenu       gui=bold     guifg=#dcdcdc  guibg=#000000
 "hi PmenuSel    gui=bold     guifg=#ffff00  guibg=#000000
 "hi PmenuSbar   gui=bold     guifg=#ffff00  guibg=#000000
 "hi PmenuThumb  gui=reverse  guifg=#ffff00  guibg=#000000
...
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Re^2: colours for syntax highlighting by Anonymous Monk on Nov 21, 2019 at 07:41 UTC
Forgot that colors for diff are horrible too, so need to be modified ... " Change colors for vimdiff to make text readable. if &diff syn off hi clear " Magenta. " Text with no changes. highlight Normal term=none cterm=italic ctermfg=5 ctermbg=0 " Green. " Text added; appears beside text-removed. highlight DiffAdd term=bold,underline cterm=bold ctermfg=2 cter +mbg=0 gui=none guifg=bg guibg=Red " " Red. " Text removed, namely "-----" indicator. highlight DiffDelete term=reverse cterm=bold ctermfg=1 ctermbg=0 + gui=none guifg=bg guibg=Red " White " Text of the line with change. highlight DiffChange term=underline cterm=none ctermfg=7 ctermbg=0 + gui=none guifg=bg guibg=Red " " Yellow. " Changed text. highlight DiffText term=bold cterm=bold ctermfg=3 ctermbg=0 + gui=none guifg=bg guibg=Red endif [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: colours for syntax highlighting
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 21, 2019 at 07:41 UTC

Forgot that colors for diff are horrible too, so need to be modified ...

 " Change colors for vimdiff to make text readable.
 if &diff
   syn off
   hi clear

   " Magenta.
   " Text with no changes.
   highlight Normal term=none cterm=italic ctermfg=5 ctermbg=0

   " Green.
   " Text added; appears beside text-removed.
   highlight DiffAdd    term=bold,underline  cterm=bold ctermfg=2 cter
+mbg=0  gui=none  guifg=bg guibg=Red
   "
   " Red.
   " Text removed, namely "-----" indicator.
   highlight DiffDelete term=reverse   cterm=bold ctermfg=1 ctermbg=0 
+ gui=none  guifg=bg guibg=Red

   " White
   " Text of the line with change.
   highlight DiffChange term=underline cterm=none ctermfg=7 ctermbg=0 
+ gui=none  guifg=bg guibg=Red
   "
   " Yellow.
   " Changed text.
   highlight DiffText   term=bold      cterm=bold ctermfg=3 ctermbg=0 
+ gui=none  guifg=bg guibg=Red
 endif
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