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vim-monokai

Refined monokai color scheme for vim.

Install

vim-plug

Plug 'crusoexia/vim-monokai'

Manually

mkdir -p ~/.vim/colors

Download the colors/monokai.vim file from the repo to ~/.vim/colors

Usage

Copy below command to your ~/.vimrc:

syntax on
colorscheme monokai

Terminal support

If you are using a terminal which support truecolor like iterm2, enable the gui color by adding below setting in ~/.vimrc or ~/.vim/init.vim

set termguicolors

Otherwise, use below setting to activate the 256 color in terminal

set t_Co=256  " vim-monokai now only support 256 colours in terminal.

coc.nvim support

coc.nvim is a powerful completion engine, it brings vs-code's experience into vim. vim-monokai fits it well.

Configuration

Italic

If you are using a font which support italic, paste below command in .vimrc to turn on gui/terminal italic effect:

let g:monokai_term_italic = 1
let g:monokai_gui_italic = 1

Note: If you are using vim with tmux, you need to turn-off the italic. tmux doesn't support italic font, all italic effect will become "reverse".

Recommend syntax plugins

nvim-treesitter

It is recommend to use nvim-treesitter for general language syntax mapping. vim-monokai tweaked to fit treesitter's highlight groups.

Currently nvim-treesitter only support neovim.

treesitter configuration

To enable treesitter's highlight group, add below configuration to your init.vim:

lua << EOF
require'nvim-treesitter.configs'.setup {
  highlight = {
    enable = true,
  },
}
EOF

Refer to treesitter highlight.

Other syntax plugins

Below plugins would give you better experience when using vim-monokai:

Windows terminal

Matched Windows Terminal color scheme:

{
  "background": "#272822",
  "black": "#272822",
  "blue": "#AE81FF",
  "brightBlack": "#383A3E",
  "brightBlue": "#AE81FF",
  "brightCyan": "#66D9EF",
  "brightGreen": "#A6E22D",
  "brightPurple": "#F92772",
  "brightRed": "#F92772",
  "brightWhite": "#E8E8E3",
  "brightYellow": "#E6DB74",
  "cursorColor": "#E8E8E3",
  "cyan": "#66D9EF",
  "foreground": "#E8E8E3",
  "green": "#A6E22D",
  "name": "Monokai",
  "purple": "#F92772",
  "red": "#E73C50",
  "selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
  "white": "#D8D8D3",
  "yellow": "#FD9720"
}

Screenshots

With treesitter

With other syntax plugins