created by

Charles Campbell

script type

color scheme

description

IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT VIM AND GVIM USING THE SAME COLORS, THIS COLORSCHEME IS NOT FOR YOU!!!  (guess I'm tired of those who complain about the use of only 8 colors...) This colorscheme is a dark-background style colorscheme with the advantage that it works with console/terminal vim in the same way that it works with GUI vim.  Thus it is restricted to using just the basic eight colors that many xterms are limited to. The <astronaut.vim> file gives you my dark background preferred colorscheme.  If you'd like to see a preview, check out    http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/colors/colorscheme.html      which has a small picture of yacc code being highlighted by <astronaut.vim>.            As of version 2 of the astronaut colorscheme, <astronaut.vim> supports some options which help console vims display properly.  There's a help file (doc/astronaut.txt) which you can enable by typing in a vim                          :helptags ~/.vim/doc/                          (correct the path as needed).  The options include:                                    let astronaut_bold=1      : use the bold modifier for term, cterm, and gui   let astronaut_dark=1      : dark colors used (otherwise some terminals                               make everything bold, which can be all one                               color)   let astronaut_underline=1 : assume that underlining works on your terminal                               Otherwise some groups will have dark-magenta                               background highlighting. For example, on my old Sgi workstation, I've found that the Irix o/s needs let astronaut_dark=1 even though its only an 8-color terminal.  Otherwise most everything shows up as yellow.

install details

1. Put <astronaut.tar.gz> into your       Unix:  .vim/       Win:    _vimfiles\    directory 2. Decompress:  gunzip astronaut.tar.gz 3. Extract:  tar -oxvf astronaut.tar 2. Put any options you want before a      colors astronaut    line into your <.vimrc>.

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
astronaut.tar.gz	7	2006-02-21	6.0	Charles Campbell	Astronaut, the first colorscheme to support gvim and vim with the same color set, now supports the new TabLine, TabLineSel, and TabLineFill highlighting groups (don't worry -- astronaut.vim will continue to work with vim6.x)
astronaut.tar.gz	6	2004-09-02	6.0	Charles Campbell	* g:astronaut_italic supported, allowing italicized fonts to be used for some gui colorization * GetLatestVimScripts semi-automatic updating and installing now supported * Improved default option value handling * Some small changes to some of the highlighting
astronaut.vim	5	2003-09-29	6.0	Charles Campbell	Three colorscheme modifiers are available to help you get the astronaut.vim colorscheme working on your terminal... astronaut_bold=1: term, cterm, and gui receive bold modifier astronaut_dark=1: dark colors used (otherwise some terminals make everything bold, which can be all one color) astronaut_underline=1 : assume that underlining works on your terminal.  Otherwise some groups will have dark-magenta background highlighting.