From: Alder Green <alder.green@...>
Date: 2006-09-19T04:39:41+09:00
Subject: Re: A better syntax highlighting color scheme for Ruby code on Vim?

Thanks Jacob, and anyone else who contributed to this thread.

After trying dozens of Vim color schemes, both popular and obscure, I
eventually picked zeburn[1], with oceandeep[2] a close second.

These two color schemes had the highest level of syntactical
differentiation out of the box (there are several other schemes on
that level, but I couldn't find any higher level). Still some place
for Ruby-specific improvements by customization, e.g. define a
different color for instance vs. class variables, which Vim actually
recognizes as two different syntactical elements: rubyInstanceVariable
vs rubyClassVarible. Vanilla zenburn and oceandeep link both highlight
groups to rubyIdentifier, thus failing to visually differentiate them.

I've spent quite a few hours coding in zenburn in the last few days,
and it is indeed easy on the eyes for long coding sessions. I've yet
to test oceandeep extensively.

-Alder

[1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=415
[2] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=368