LiteBrite is a heavily customized dark color scheme for Vim. It is designed primarily with 256 color terminals in mind and attempts to provide a consistent experience for a variety of file types.

• Rationale
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The world of Vim is full of fantastic themes. There are literally thousands. So why build another?

In a nutshell, I wanted a dark color scheme that was built for a 256 color terminal and provided decent support for a variety of file types. While there are some amazing themes out there, I just couldn't find one that satisfied both of these constraints.

If you look at the source code for most of the available Vim color schemes, you will likely discover they do not contain many highlights. Often they cover only a few of the "core" highlights and perhaps some additional ones for particular file types. As a result your mileage may vary depending on the type of file you're working with.

This is not totally the fault of theme developer.

To be fair a large portion of this problem lies within syntax files which either do not cover enough of the target language, make poor linking choices, or both.

• c
• c++
• clojure
• coffeescript
• css
• haskell
• html
• javascript
• livescript
• mysql
• netwr
• php
• ruby
• sass
• shell
• sml
• viml
• xml

Contributions of any kind are welcome. Please feel free to fork the project or open an issue.