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ZENBURN

Zenburn is a low-contrast color scheme for Vim. It’s easy for your eyes and designed to keep you in the zone for long programming sessions.

Zenburn has been ported to many different editors and environments. For more information visit http://slinky.imukuppi.org/zenburnpage A list of derivatives is below.

No:

  • dayglo vomit
  • black, red, blue and green on screaming white background
  • headache
  • watery, squinting eyes
  • the "I wanna run away" feeling

Yes:

  • alien fruit salad
  • harmonious colors help with concentration
  • improved focus
  • stay longer in the zone
  • more productivity
  • looks good
  • 256-color terminal mode
  • GVim mode
  • customizeable
  • etc.

INSTALLATION IN VIM/GVIM

To use Zenburn in GVim, simply copy the file to colors/ subdirectory under your Vim configuration folder (e.g. ~/.vim/colors or C:\vim\colors).

To use Zenburn in Vim, you must enable the 256-color mode for Vim. This can be done with e.g. export TERM=xterm-256color. You might also need to add set t_Co=256 into your .vimrc file, before loading the colorscheme. Note, that due to limitations of the 256-color mode the color scheme is not exactly like it appears in GVim, but very close nevertheless.

To load Zenburn in Vim/GVim:

:colors zenburn

To automatically load the colors upon startup of Vim, add this to .vimrc:

colors zenburn

LICENSE

GNU GPL, http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

DEVELOPERS

Captain Obvious says: make a symlink from ~/.vim/colors/zenburn.vim which points to the real zenburn.vim. This way you don't need to copy files around and making the Vimball is easy!

MAKING A VIMBALL

To make a Vimball, open zb-vimball.txt and then :MkVimball zenburn.vba

THANKS

  • Creators of "BlackDust", "Camo" and "Desert" themes. I used those to figure out how the Vim color schemes work in practise.
  • All contributors - see zenburn.vim for a list.
  • All people who made derivatives and ports.
  • All zenburners worldwide!

PARTING WORDS

Thank you for enjoying “Just some alien fruit salad to keep you in the zone”!

Cheers, slinky at iki dot fi

APPENDIX: PORTS OF ZENBURN

This repo now archives many of the different ports, variants and colourscheme files for the Zenburn theme posted to the original comment thread. @mildlydiverting pulled these together for @jnurmine.

What's In This Repo

zenburn-vim - @jnurmine's original Vim scheme.

ports - themes and scheme files are organised within subfolders by the parent app they're designed for

colours - contains html tables, excel files, palettes for design apps etc with hex and rgb colour codes. This includes dumps of the old deleted wikipedia tables describing the scheme.

Links to all sources for ports follow below.

If repos already exist, they have not been cloned in to this one.

For some gists and smaller files, copies have been archived in to this repo.

Files just availabile as downloads from other sites have been archived here.

Instructions or original blog posts about the ports are generally saved as a text file in the relevant folder.

TODO - put text files with sources / credits / license conditions in each folder.

TODO - add any more ports

The Original Zenburn Files

In other repos (github, gists, bitbucket... etc)

anrxc Adrian C collection

From: http://sysphere.org/~anrxc/j/articles/zenburn/index.html - Adrian C. (anrxc) http://sysphere.org/~anrxc/j/archives/2009/03/08/zenburn_color_scheme/index.html

Other File Sources

Most of the following are traced from the comments on the original article. If any of these are wrongly named, blame @mildlydiverting (or ask her to change this)

Credits for Ports

Credit duly given to all of the port authors. Thanks chaps!

Licenses for Ports of Zenburn

Whilst the original Zenburn is released under the GPL, please check any licensing conditions of ports, just in case.

[ENDS]