stellarized paint vim with the stars

palette

sunny day	starry night
The solarized theme, inspired by reading a book under a shady tree on a sunny day, features a base palette of dark green-blue and bright orange-yellow. The stellarized theme takes this basic idea and shifts the base hues to reflect the colours of the stars. Specifically, dark base colors are shifted bluewise (to the approximate "hot star hue"), while light base colors are shifted orangewise (to the "cold star hue"). stellarized is a special adaptation of snow.

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, stellarized can be installed by adding the following to the top of your vimrc...

call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
Plug 'nightsense/stellarized'
call plug#end()

...then reloading vimrc (by running :so % at the vim command line, or by restarting vim), followed by :PlugUpdate.

activation

For a sunny day, add the following to vimrc:

colorscheme stellarized
set background=light

For a starry night:

colorscheme stellarized
set background=dark

If you'd like the background to switch automatically at sunrise/set (or any other time), consider trying night-and-day.

terminal vim

colors

stellarized should work in 256-color and true-color terminals. You may need the following in vimrc:

set termguicolors

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), you could add to vimrc:

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

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

status line themes

stellarized comes with themes for airline and lightline. A separate theme is provided for each variant+background.

For instance, to activate the dark airline theme:

let g:airline_theme='stellarized_dark'

For lightline:

let g:lightline = { 'colorscheme': 'stellarized_dark' }

dark can be replaced with light.

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repo license: MIT

header image credit: ESO/S. Brunier (CC BY 4.0)