Shobogenzo is a comfortable and medium-contrast color scheme designed specifically for Vim editors, accounting for easy reading experience.
For those who are not familiar with Vim, it is a text editor initially released for the Amiga computer in 1991 by Bram Moolenaar. It was designed as an extended version of the vi editor with additional features geared towards editing source code. Vim is cross-platform but is most popular on Unix-like operating systems. It is also free and open source software under a license that includes charityware clauses.
While Vim's interface is not based on menus or icons but rather commands given in a text user interface, its GUI mode, gVim, offers menus and toolbars for commonly used functions. Despite this, Vim's full functionality is still best expressed via command line mode. While Vim may initially be challenging for new users, it is highly efficient and productive once the basics are understood. To ease the process, Vim comes with a built-in tutorial for beginners and a Vim Users' Manual that covers basic and advanced features. The manual can be accessed online or read within the program.
Installation of Shobogenzo is a breeze; simply copy the file to $HOME/.vim/colors and within Vim, set the colorscheme to shobogenzo. If using a Gnome terminal, ensure that your profile's colors are set to xterm to get the most out of this colorscheme. Overall, Shobogenzo is highly recommended for anyone looking for a comfortable colorscheme to work with in Vim.
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