nofrils VS vim

I remember having a chat with Andrew Gerrand at some Go conference, about how syntax highlighting is mostly done wrong, we just got used to it being that way. It's not like we colour words in a sentence based on their type, but we do enjoy tools highlighting misspelled words or grammatical errors.

In my experience syntax highlighting as a tool mostly help with certain classes of errors (unclosed string, comment...), not visually tokenising text for me to understand.

I've seen some such uncoloured theme (nofrils) that would de-emphasise either comments or code, and you could toggle between the two states:

https://robertmeta.com/posts/syntax-highlighting-off/

There are a bunch of learnings and a couple of links to references. Ironically one of the most prevalent I experienced was this one:

> People on the internet will get very angry at you if you tell them you don’t like syntax highlighting. VERY ANGRY.

Some of these vim "color"schemes:

    https://github.com/robertmeta/nofrils

Nord.

vim-plug, nord-vim, lightline

Both Vim [1] and Emacs[2] are on the ports page [0]. In Emacs it's as easy to install as `package-install nord-theme` and then `load-theme nord`. I will note that I tried it out in Emacs running in Windows Terminal and it looks terrible, completely different from the demo and almost unusable - I quickly went back to one of the default themes, tango-dark. This is probably only going to work in the GUI version.

[0] https://www.nordtheme.com/ports

[1] https://www.nordtheme.com/ports/vim

[2] https://www.nordtheme.com/ports/emacs

Looks like Nord

There are no third-party themes in the docs. Most screenshots in Nord Vim's docs show how the theme looks like by default and if this is not the case on your system than the chance it high that your local setup is broken. Also please note that Neovim is currently not a supported application (yet) and the theme is built for "Vanilla" Vim.

There are plenty of other amazing plugins. Also, have fun looking through colorschemes to make vim look pretty! Check out https://vimcolorschemes.com/ or https://github.com/rafi/awesome-vim-colorschemes. I use eva01 (https://github.com/hachy/eva01.vim). Others I've liked are nord (https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord-vim), orbital (https://github.com/fcpg/vim-orbital), and gotham (https://github.com/whatyouhide/vim-gotham).

Recently, I've taken up focusing my early mornings on writing and I'm currently using the Nord theme.

copy your favourite theme (let's say https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord-vim), give it new name, change the colors.