shoji 

A vim theme that conveys syntax with colorful background highlighting (instead of colored text).

Crafted with the magnificent Colortemplate.

variants

The shoji "theme" is actually a pair of themes.

shoji_niji is the exuberant one, showering syntactic rainbows.

shoji_shiro is the restrained one, content with pristine black-and-white, except where color is unavoidably practical.

installation

If you don’t have a preferred plugin helper, consider trying vim-plug, which can be installed with:

curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim

With vim-plug, shoji can be installed by adding the following to the top of your vimrc...

call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
Plug 'haystackandroid/shoji'
call plug#end()

...then restarting vim and running PlugUpdate (from the vim command line).

activation

To activate a shoji theme, add one of the following to your vimrc:

• colorscheme shoji_niji
• colorscheme shoji_shiro

A keybinding for the ShojiToggle() function can be used to switch between the two shoji themes:

noremap <C-s> :call ShojiToggle()<return>

Change <C-s> (which denotes the keystroke [ctrl+s]) to suit your preference.

terminal cursor

shape

To set mode-specific cursor shapes in terminal vim, see the vim tips wiki.

For instance, to set cursor shapes in vte-compatible terminals (like urxvt):

let &t_SI = "\<Esc>[6 q"
let &t_SR = "\<Esc>[4 q"
let &t_EI = "\<Esc>[2 q"

This sets the cursor to a vertical line for insert mode, underline for replace mode, and block for normal mode.

color

To set cursor color in (vte-compatible) terminal vim, wrap the vim command in a shell function.

For bash/zsh, add the following to ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc:

vim() {
  printf "%b" "\033]11;#fafafa\007\033]12;#2a2a2a\007"
  sh -c "vim $*"
  clear
  printf "%b" "\033]11;#2e3440\007\033]12;#d8dee9\007"
}

For fish, add the following to ~/.config/fish/config.fish:

function vim
  printf "%b" "\033]11;#fafafa\007\033]12;#2a2a2a\007"
  sh -c "vim $argv"
  clear
  printf "%b" "\033]11;#2e3440\007\033]12;#d8dee9\007"
end

Replace 2e3440 and d8dee9 with the background and foreground colors of your terminal theme.

For neovim, substitute vim with nvim.

language samples

These samples (drawn from Rosetta Code) use vim's built-in syntax detection for each filetype.

clojure

erlang

lisp

php

r

rust