From: Jacob Fugal <lukfugl@...>
Date: 2006-09-16T00:07:40+09:00
Subject: Re: A better syntax highlighting color scheme for Ruby code on Vim?

On 9/3/06, Alder Green <alder.green@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/2/06, James Britt <james.britt@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Alder Green wrote:
> > > How do I get a nice color scheme that would do a better job of
> > > visually differentiating the various Ruby-related syntactical
> > > elements?
> >
> > See if this helps:
> >
> > http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~maverick/VimColorSchemeTest/index-java.html
>
> Thanks, that link is very nice. Not sure yet if it helps with my
> stated specific problem - all the Ruby syntax elements that are
> undifferentiated in my current scheme may also be so in the schemes on
> that website.

I've been using the "desert" color scheme (I may be biases as my
brother wrote it, but I like it nonetheless) for many years. This
color scheme has been included in the install for many years, and at
least recently, a decent ruby.vim syntax file is also included in the
install. So now on a new machine I can just install vim and set
colorscheme=desert in my vimrc and be good to go. Since the new
ruby.vim syntax file has been included, I've never had a problem with
undifferentiated tokens. The colorscheme does suffer from the
dark-blue comments on black background when you're in CLI vim, but the
rest of it works out fine.

Mostly, my point was that since desert has good differentiation of
tokens using the default ruby.vim syntax file, most of the others
mentioned on that page should probably do pretty well also. If they're
not, there might be something weird (or old) about your vim setup.

FWIW,

Jacob Fugal