onedark.vim VS semshi

Onedark has been solid so far for me

As you can see only the langauge keywords are being highlighted but not function and variable names. I am using onedark and coc.nvim.

Github: joshdick/onedark.vim

It turns out this was an issue with my theme, onedark.vim, which was out of date due to some broken configuration somewhere. I reinstalled it with vim-plug and read the README. I learned that my terminal support truecolor, so I turned it on for onedark. That fixed the problem. There's no highlight in 256-color mode, but the highlight works fine in truecolor mode. Strange.

ful1e5/onedark.nvim is completely written in Lua which means it loads way faster. It also supports Treesitter which provides way better syntax highlighting, which dick/onedark.vim doesn't. Lastly, my favourite feature is that it allows you to override/create highlight group configs and pass to the plugin before loading the colorscheme which makes customizing highlight groups super easy (and I would guess faster as well?) compared to calling highlight a bunch of times in your config. Here's What my configuration of it looks like if you're curious.

something similar to this but I am using nvim

I know it's not strictly Linux related but I'm not sure where else to post this, sorry. I have been in the process of configuring my setup including Alacritty but the colors for it look off. I'm using the one dark color scheme but the colors in the terminal don't quite match, specifically the yellow/orange looks like a dark brown. I read here that you can check if a terminal is using truecolor by using this command:

since it doesn't work with : joshdick/onedark.vim

Try https://github.com/numirias/semshi Semantic Highlighting for Python in Neovim

Yes, I think treesitter highlight is yet limited and still a mess. I am still sitting at semshi, but look forward to switching to treesitter completely in the future.

I use neovim with my transparent kitty terminal. Kitty doesn't make the actual letters transparent so they are still easy to see, just the background of the terminal. Then ontop of that my syntax highlighting is really intense (https://github.com/numirias/semshi) and my background is pretty dark (lots of blacks and dark blues and other dark complementing colors that are easy on the eyes) so text is still easy to see while still looking quite nice IMO.

One of the best and easiest way is using plugin numirias/semshi.

https://github.com/numirias/semshi gives pretty cool semantic highlighting.

Vim's highlighting is more limited. Vim uses regex for syntax highlighting as opposed to using ASTs. You can try looking in the Neovim direction instead. Here's some Neovim-only plugin https://github.com/numirias/semshi for python specifically.

It's describe under the highlights title in README : https://github.com/numirias/semshi#highlights

semshi is quite good.