Sublime Monokai for Vim

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vim-sublime-monokai is a refined Monokai color scheme for vim tries to look like Sublime's default color scheme. It's derived from the work put into:

• sickill/vim-monokai
• crusoexia/vim-monokai

I noticed that there were several places where the highlighting wasn't entirely faithful to that of Sublime, which is my second choice for editing in my day-to-day. The purpose of this project is to provide an experience that matches Sublime as closely as possible.

Note that, in my case, I use several plugins to enhance my own highlighting and ctags experience. Where possible, the dependent plugins have been noted for languages whose highlighting would otherwise be impossible to make equivalent to Sublime. Conflicts with other plugins that I've used have been noted. You will NOT get full fidelity with Sublime's highlighting if you use conflicting plugins with this color scheme enabled.

Installation

Use your favorite plugin manager! Alternatively, download the colors/sublimemonokai.vim file and move it into your colors folder.

Usage

After installing this plugin via your favorite plugin manager, add the following to your vimrc:

syntax on
colorscheme sublimemonokai

Inside of sublimemonokai.vim one will find notes and suggested variations from exact Sublime colors that contributors have found to be superior to vanilla Sublime. It is recommended that you take a look and see if there's anything you like! Deficiencies in syntax highlighting support that make it impossible to achieve parity with Sublime have also been noted. These are prime candidates for PRs if you find a plugin with better syntax highlighting groups!

Terminal support

vim-sublime-monokai only support 256 colours in terminal. If you are using a terminal which support truecolor like iterm2, enable the GUI color by adding the following to your vimrc:

set termguicolors

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

set t_Co=256

Configuration

Italics

By default italicized text is enabled in GUI (gVim), but in terminal it's not. If you are using a font that support italics in terminal, add the following to your .vimrc:

let g:sublimemonokai_term_italic = 1

Transparent background

To use a transparent background, add the following to your .vimrc:

let g:sublimemonokai_transparent_bg = 1

Language-specific configuration

In order to provide an experience with parity to Sublime, this color scheme integrates with the highlighting groups that several language-specific plugins specify. You will need to install these plugins in order to have Sublime-like highlighting.

Java

There are two flavors you can pick from here -- see below sections for more details.

Mainline vim's Java

This is the recommended option for Java. You will need at least the following configuration for proper color support:

let java_comment_strings=1
let java_highlight_functions=1
let java_highlight_java_lang_ids=1

Using vim-java

1. vim-java for the core language

Javascript

1. vim-javascript for the core language
2. vim-javascript-lib, for popular Javascript libraries, like underscore and Backbone.

Conflicts with Javascript

• cSyntaxAfter conflicts on many operator groups.

Go

1. vim-go for the core language

   You will need at least the following configuration for proper color support:

   let g:go_highlight_format_strings = 1
   let g:go_highlight_function_arguments = 1
   let g:go_highlight_function_calls = 1
   let g:go_highlight_functions = 1
   let g:go_highlight_operators = 1
   let g:go_highlight_types = 1

   The following are also provided as options by vim-go and are handled gracefully:

   let g:go_highlight_extra_types = 1
   let g:go_highlight_fields = 1
   let g:go_highlight_generate_tags = 1
   let g:go_highlight_variable_assignments = 1
   let g:go_highlight_variable_declarations = 1

   This should cover all options provided by vim-go pertaining to highlighting. If you notice that this is out-of-date, please submit a PR!

PHP

1. StanAngeloff/php.vim for the core language

   You will need at least the following configuration for proper color support:

   let g:php_var_selector_is_identifier = 1

Python

1. python-syntax for the core language

   You will need at least the following configuration for proper color support:

   let g:python_highlight_all = 1

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