created by

erik falor

script type

utility

description

This plugin provides a GUI tool which simplifies creating/editing Vim colorscheme files.  It consists of a Vim plugin as well as a Python program, and utilizes Vim's command server interface |clientserver| for communications. New in version 1.1: The list of highlight groups now displays a swatch of the current foreground/ background colors.  You can see right away which colors are used for each highlight group.   After getting some negative feedback over my last few colorscheme contributions, I have added a readability column to this tool that analyses the color contrast between foreground and background colors.  I hope that this will lead to colorschemes that are easy on the eyes for all Vim users. See the screenshots: http://i49.servimg.com/u/f49/12/09/64/12/metada10.jpg http://i49.servimg.com/u/f49/12/09/64/12/colors10.png The goals that I hope to achieve through this plugin are to improve the quality of existing colorschemes by allowing the authors the freedom to create colorschemes in a natural WYSIWYG fashion.  Immediate visual feedback lets the author quickly assess the effects of their changes, and allows them to easily choose just the right color for a highlight element.  By displaying all of the "preferred" highlight groups in a treeview, colorscheme authors can ensure that all of the important highlights have been changed to fit in with the overall scheme.  Users of colorschemes can use this plugin to tweak their favorite colorschemes more to their liking. Colorschemes generated with this plugin are backwards-compatible with earlier versions of Gvim that do not use such highlight groups as CursorLine or Pmenu. Your palette of custom colors is saved in the colorscheme file, so that your choices persist between editing sessions.  This helps you maintain a consistent look-and-feel while you are in the process of creating the colorscheme.  Other metadata related to the colorscheme, such as licensing information and your contact information are accessible from within the editor as well. This plugin makes a nice compliment to my earlier work, ColorSchemeMenuMaker.     http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2004 If you have already installed ColorSchemeMenuMaker, the menu entry for ColorSchemeEditor will appear at the bottom of the "ColorSchemes" menu item. Additionally, you may invoke it via the :ColorSchemeEditor command. Send bugs, suggestions, flames, etc. to NOSPAMewfalor@NOSPAMgmail.com - NOSPAM.

install details

ColorSchemeEditor requires that your version of Vim is compiled with the |gui| and |clientserver| features. The GUI editor is written with Python, with PyGTK and Glade comprising the graphical interface. If you want to use this on Un*x systems, make sure you have those three packages and their dependencies installed. More specifically, Gentoo users will need at least the following packages: dev-lang/python x11-libs/gtk+ gnome-base/libglade dev-python/pygtk Ubuntu users will need at least these packages: libglade2-0, python, python-gtk2, python-glade2 Windows users will need at least the following software packages: Python       http://www.python.org/download/ PyGTK        http://www.pygtk.org/downloads.html Pygobject    See above Pycairo      See above gladewin32   http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/modules/news/ Once the requisite software packages are installed, simply unzip the plugin package into your ~/.vim (or ~/vimfiles) directory.  The ColorSchemeEditor.{py,vim,glade} files should all wind up in the plugin directory. Any new instances of Gvim will now show the 'ColorSchemes' menu, and are ready to go.  Within already running instances of Gvim, you may execute     :runtime plugin/ColorSchemeEditor.vim to load the plugin. Also, you should run helptags:     :helptags $HOME/.vim/doc

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
ColorSchemeEditor.zip	1.2.3	2012-03-22	7.0	erik falor	Parameterize name of the Python executable. Adjust the rgb.txt search path.

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