southernlights

Vim and Neovim color scheme

Features

• Black background.
• Many different colors.
• High contrast.
• Specific rules for TreeSitter, LSP, html, mail, diff, wdiff, and nvim-cmp.
• Vim version written in VimScript and Neovim version written in Lua.
• History: the starting point was "torte".
• Personal information: I have never had an opportunity to see the real southern lights.

Usage

Neovim

In your init.lua:

require("southernlights").load()

Vim

In your vimrc:

colorscheme southernlights

Screenshot

To replicate the image above, open the file scripts/openFiles.vim and, in Normal mode, type :so.

To see what attributes your terminal emulator supports, run the Python script test_terminal.py:

cd scripts
python3 test_terminal.py