Spacegray.vim

Spacegray is a colorscheme for Vim loosely modeled after the spacegray theme for Xcode.

Options

You can tweak Spacegray by enabling the following disabled options:

1. Underlined Search: Underline search text instead of using highlight color. Put the following in your ~/.vimrc to enable it:

let g:spacegray_underline_search = 1

2. Italic Comments: Italicize comments (note: vim requires terminal support). Put the following in your ~/.vimrc to enable it:

let g:spacegray_italicize_comments = 1

Screenshots

Here are a few screenshots of Spacegray: (Font used: Fira Mono 12pt)

JavaScript (GUI Vim)

Vim (GUI Vim)

Ruby (Terminal Vim)

Installation

If you don't have a preferred installation method, I recommend installing pathogen.vim, and then simply copy and paste:

cd ~/.vim/bundle && git clone git://github.com/ajh17/Spacegray.vim.git

Then in your ~/.vimrc, add this line:

colorscheme spacegray

Terminal Environment

If you use Spacegray inside a Terminal, please make sure you use a Terminal with 256 color support. Most these days are. Ensure that the default TERM contains the string 256color. An example would be xterm-256color or if using tmux or screen, screen-256color.

NOTE: If you use Vim 7.4.1778 or higher, you can now use Spacegray's GUI colors inside terminal Vim as long as your terminal supports true colors (24-bit colors). To enable this, put :set guicolors and ignore the rest of the terminal color sections of this document.

Terminal Color Palette

Spacegray will look good in a dark terminal colorscheme, but if you use Spacegray's color palette, it will look beautiful.

Terminal Colorschemes

On OS X, colorschemes for iTerm2 and Terminal.app are provided with the download. Simply double click to install.

Terminator

Spacegray.terminator is provided for Terminator and can be installed by copying to ~/.config/terminator/config on Linux or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/terminator/config if you're running OS X.

Gnome Terminal

For gnome terminal, the instructions are a tad bit complicated since configuration is done via dconf.

First, launch a new instance of Gnome Terminal and then go to Preferences -> Profiles and click Edit on the default profile being used. Copy the "Profile ID" from that window. Open a new Terminal and set a local variable like so:

profile_id=<profile_id_here>

In the same terminal window, run a set of dconf write commands to set the colors:

dconf write /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:$profile_id/visible-name "'Spacegray'"
dconf write /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:$profile_id/background-color "'rgb(17,19,20)'"
dconf write /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:$profile_id/foreground-color "'rgb(183,187,183)'"
dconf write /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:$profile_id/use-theme-colors "false"
dconf write /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:$profile_id/use-theme-transparency "false"
dconf write /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:$profile_id/palette "['rgb(44,47,51)', 'rgb(176,76,80)', 'rgb(145,150,82)', 'rgb(226,153,92)', 'rgb(102,137,157)', 'rgb(141,100,148)', 'rgb(82,124,119)', 'rgb(96,99,96)', 'rgb(75,80,86)', 'rgb(176,76,80)', 'rgb(148,152,91)', 'rgb(226,153,92)', 'rgb(102,137,157)', 'rgb(141,100,148)', 'rgb(82,124,119)', 'rgb(221,227,220)']"

The terminal should then reflect Spacegray's colors.

Xresources

For Linux/BSD users, here is a sample ~/.Xresources:

*background: #111314
*foreground: #B7BBB7
! black
*color0: #2C2F33
*color8: #4B5056
! red
*color1: #B04C50
*color9: #B04C50
! green
*color2: #919652
*color10: #94985B
! yellow
*color3: #E2995C
*color11: #E2995C
! blue
*color4: #66899D
*color12: #66899D
! magenta
*color5: #8D6494
*color13: #8D6494
! cyan
*color6: #527C77
*color14: #527C77
! white
*color7: #606360
*color15: #DDE3DC

License

Copyright (c) Akshay Hegde. Distributed under the same terms as Vim itself. See :help license