bat vs vim-dim

bat

A cat(1) clone with wings. (by sharkdp)

vim-dim

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

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bat		vim-dim
	Project
195	Mentions	13
46,217	Stars	237
-	Growth	-
9.5	Activity	0.0
5 days ago	Latest Commit	about 3 years ago
Rust	Language	Vim Script
Apache License 2.0	License	-

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bat

Posts with mentions or reviews of bat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-13.

Hired: A Modern Take on 'Ed'
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2024

That’s the same as bat:[1] one of the features is syntax highlighting. Kind of unexpected to find a concatenation program… which also does that.
[1] https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
Essential Command Line Tools for Developers
29 projects | dev.to | 15 Jan 2024

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5 Developer CLI Essentials
3 projects | dev.to | 2 Jan 2024

4. bat
Ugrep – a more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep
27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2023

Good find, thanks! I'll check if I prefer it to moar.
As for bat, according to https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#using-bat-on-windows, the Chocolatey package simply installs `less` alongside `bat`. Seems like a good idea, but I haven't tried it.

27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2023

I referenced bat because I've found that suggesting cygwin sometimes provokes a negative reaction. The GP also mentioned needing to install GNU tooling as if it were a negative.
bat is fancy pager written in Rust. It's on GitHub: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
Tell HN: My Favorite Tools
14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Dec 2023
MacOS tools to make your life easier
14 projects | /r/MacOS | 7 Dec 2023

Try bat (it’s like cat but better) https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
🐚🦀Comandos shell reescritos em Rust
9 projects | dev.to | 4 Oct 2023

bat
macOS Command-Line Tools You Might Not Know About
23 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jun 2023

I've been using bat as a cat replacement for a while now. It includes paging, syntax highlighting, line numbers, and is generally very performant.
https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
Get better with Vim one tip at a time
2 projects | /r/vim | 8 Jun 2023

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic here, but you really should check out bat.

vim-dim

Posts with mentions or reviews of vim-dim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-20.

Whats your favourite colorscheme in Vim/NeoVim?
36 projects | /r/vim | 20 Apr 2022

44 projects | /r/vim | 14 Mar 2022

I use a slightly improved version of default. https://github.com/jeffkreeftmeijer/vim-dim
Vim Color Schemes
16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Apr 2022

I achieve that same consistency with virtually zero configuration by simply setting the colors in my terminal and forgetting about it. Stopped all the fiddling with color schemes quite a while ago.
Good explanation: https://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/vim-16-color/
What's your neovim colorscheme?
54 projects | /r/neovim | 1 Nov 2021
Trying to reach terminal constancy using ANSI only colors
7 projects | dev.to | 16 Sep 2021

I created a color theme for vim based off vim-dim
Vim themes that exclusively use the 16 terminal colors?
6 projects | /r/neovim | 7 Aug 2021

I already know about noctu and dim, but they are still too busy for my taste and use weirdly chosen colors. Are there any more?
What's your favourite Fonts and Themes?
23 projects | /r/vim | 23 Apr 2021

Hack font and dim/grim.
New dark Neovim theme TokyoNight written in Lua, with support for lsp, treesitter and lots of plugins.
22 projects | /r/neovim | 19 Apr 2021

This might be of interest: https://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/vim-16-color/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bat and vim-dim you can also consider the following projects:

vim-colors-solarized - precision colorscheme for the vim text editor

exa - A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

awesome-zsh-plugins - A collection of ZSH frameworks, plugins, themes and tutorials.

iTerm2-Color-Schemes - Over 250 terminal color schemes/themes for iTerm/iTerm2. Includes ports to Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, MobaXterm, LXTerminal, Microsoft's Windows Terminal, Visual Studio, Alacritty

fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

glow - Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻

gitsigns.nvim - Git integration for buffers

sh - A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash support; includes shfmt

oh-my-zsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 1700+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes nearly 300 optional plugins (rails, git, OSX, hub, capistrano, brew, ant, php, python, etc), over 140 themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community. [Moved to: https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh]

delta - A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output

Iosevka - Versatile typeface for code, from code.

ripgrep - ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore