Dim

Dim (/dɪm/; a contraction of Default IMproved) is a clone of Vim’s default colorscheme, with some improvements:

• It only uses ANSI colors, so you can assign colors in your terminal emulator yourself
• Syntax highlighting is consistent on light and dark backgrounds

Dim comes with Grim: a monochrome version that limits syntax coloring to grayscales.

Installation

git clone --branch 1.x [email protected]:jeffkreeftmeijer/vim-dim.git ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start/vim-dim

After installing, set your

:colorscheme

dim

grim

" ~/.vimrc
colorscheme dim

Pessimistic versioning branches

Dim adheres to semantic versioning, meaning it'll try to keep backwards compatibility in minor and patch releases. In short:

• A breaking change will bump the major version number (1.0.0 -> 2.0.0)
• An added feature will bump the minor version number (1.0.0 -> 1.1.0)
• A bug fix will bump the patch version number (1.0.0 -> 1.0.1)

Since Vim's plugin manager doesn't allow specifying version ranges, Dim provides "pessimistic versioning branches" itself to allow users to lock to a specific version range:

• The branch named

  1.x

  is updated for every released version in the 1.x range (

  ~> 1.0

  or

  >= 1.0.0 and < 2.0.0

  )
• The branch named

  1.1

  is updated for every released version in the 1.1.x range (

  ~> 1.1.0

  or

  >= 1.1.0 and < 1.2.0

  )

To install the latest version in the 1.x range, clone Dim's

1.x

git clone --branch 1.x [email protected]:jeffkreeftmeijer/vim-dim.git ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start/vim-dim

When updating through

git pull

Comparison

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colorscheme default

colorscheme dim