bensday 1.0

bensday is a Vim color scheme, the slightly modified version of the evening color scheme.

Developer comments

This color scheme is based upon the evening color scheme with only slight modifications. So most (99%) of the credit for this color scheme belongs to the maintainer of the original work, Bram Moolenaar.

The main differences are: It does not use a black background for some keywords but uses a darker global background even for the cursor line. In gvim it also uses more bold fonts, and the statusline of inactive windows has a different background color than in the original scheme.

The name was inspired by a colleague of mine, who preferes dark themes for his desktop and likes to work in dark rooms... no, he does not crumble to dust in sunlight, but he is close to it...

About Vim:

Vim is a text editor first released by Bram Moolenaar in 1991 for the Amiga computer. Vim was created as an extended version of the vi editor, with many additional features designed to be helpful in editing program source code; its full name is Vi IMproved.

While Vim is cross-platform, it is most popular on Unix-like operating systems.

Released under a software license compatible with the GNU General Public License, Vim is free and open source software. The program's license includes some charityware clauses.

Like vi, Vim's interface is based not on menus or icons but on commands given in a text user interface; its GUI mode, gVim, adds menus and toolbars for commonly used commands but the full functionality is still expressed through its command line mode.

For many users learning Vim may be difficult and slow initially, but once the basics are understood they progress quickly and editing becomes more efficient. To facilitate this, Vim has a built-in tutorial for beginners. There is also the Vim Users' Manual that details the basic and more advanced Vim features. This manual can be read from within Vim, or found online.

Vim also has a built-in help facility (using the :help command) that allows users to query and navigate through commands and features.

Requirements:

· Vim

INSTALLATION:

Copy this file into your "colors" directory.
You can reference it in your .vimrc or .gvimrc with: colorscheme bensday

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