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gruvbox for pygments

Gruvbox is an excellent "retro groove color scheme" for Vim. This is an attempt at adapting it for use as a Pygments theme.

Gruvbox is a highly customized Vim color scheme, and it can look quite different when viewing different file formats (Ruby vs. Clojure is a good example). This Pygments theme is designed to mirror, as closely as possible, the Clojure file syntax highlighting in dark mode. Other languages do still look quite nice with this Pygments theme, it's just that they may not look very much like their corresponding syntax highlighting with the Gruvbox color scheme in Vim.

To create this pygments theme, I used vim2pygments to convert gruvbox.vim into a pygments theme file, and then made a few additional tweaks to the resulting gruvbox.py to get the Clojure syntax highlighting looking as much as possible like it does in Vim. The conversion process was a little trickier than usual, because the author of Gruvbox utilized the power of Vimscript to do some clever things and basically generate the highlighting information programmatically instead of hard-coding it into the file like most Vim color schemes do. Because vim2pygments needs to see a bunch of lines starting with hi, I had to change the execute command that sources each would-be hi command on-the-fly, and instead have it append each hi command to a temporary file that vim2pygments could understand. It was hacky, but it worked.

Usage / Installation

Blog

If you just want to use the Gruvbox theme for the code blocks on your Jekyll blog or whatever, simply replace your pygments.css with the one in this repo and you're good to go. You may wish to make a backup of your old css file if you ever change your mind.

For more general use with pygments, there are two methods of installing:

Manual

Find your pygments installation path (on my system, it's located at /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pygments) and rename the style.py from this repo to gruvbox.py, and move it into the styles subdirectory of the path above.

Automatic

For those who do not want to directly add to the source directories of the project, clone this repo to a suitable place, for example, ~/.local/scripts/gruvbox-pygments, change directory to this location and run:

sudo python setup.py develop

This will hook in this style into pygments without editing the source directories of pygments iteself. Do not delete this directory as this where python will be looking for this style file.

Uninstall

Blog

Replace the pygments.css with your backup for the Jekyll blog or whatever.

Manual

Remove the gruvbox.py file from the installation path.

Automatic

Remove just as you would any other python package. For example with pip:

sudo pip uninstall gruvbox-pygments

You can now safely remove the directory containing this repo.

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