Vim color scheme: Wombat
January 22, 2007
I have put together a color scheme for (G)Vim called Wombat. Dark gray background with easy-on-the-eyes font colors. It shares some similarities with the Desert color scheme. Here are a couple of shots:
Download the Wombat color scheme. Enjoy… 🙂
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January 27, 2007 at 7:39 am
Thanks for sharing this! It’s my new favourite vim theme.
January 27, 2007 at 9:49 am
You are very welcome. It’s nice to hear from someone who likes the color scheme.
February 8, 2007 at 9:36 pm
What font is that?
February 9, 2007 at 3:41 pm
The font is called Consolas. It is a Microsoft font intended for use with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, but you can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=22e69ae4-7e40-4807-8a86-b3d36fab68d3&displaylang=en
February 19, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Great job on the colorscheme.
I’ve been using it as my default one since I discovered it a few days ago.
Thanks!
February 19, 2007 at 1:50 pm
BTW, I did make 1 small change to it though. You didn’t have a color defined for the FoldColumn attribute, so I added one and assigned it the same color as Folded.
February 20, 2007 at 10:13 am
jvana: Thank you very much. Nice to hear that you like the colorscheme. As for the FoldColumn attribute, I will add it to the scheme myself. There are a few more attributes that I would like to add, so I will make the updated version of the scheme available when I get around to adding them 🙂
February 25, 2007 at 3:18 am
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September 16, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Very good color scheme. Only one remark: the color of the Cursor and Visual seems too similar to the Normal background color; thus the cursor and the selection can be hardly distinguished.
September 30, 2007 at 12:40 pm
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November 12, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Also my new favorite theme. Thank you for sharing!
December 16, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Very cool colorscheme. I love it. Thaaanks 😀
December 25, 2007 at 11:00 am
Fantastic color scheme. I have been looking for
something like this for ages. Thank you so much..
February 17, 2008 at 2:29 am
thank you for creating such a beautiful scheme. I’ve been looking at it everyday for a couple of months now, and i love it ! 😉
February 28, 2008 at 7:45 am
very cool, a bit buggy in normal vim with ubuntu 7.10.
nice and easy to read, well done!
March 19, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Great color scheme! Thanks for sharing it, and for sharing the font too. I downloaded the first and I’m downloading the second too.
Great work =)
May 5, 2008 at 6:08 am
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May 17, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Awesome theme. Works great in GVIM, but doesn’t look the same in VIM. Any ideas why?
May 17, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I LOVE wombat but is always bothered me that theme didn’t translate well the a 256-color xterm. I made a version that includes the cterm colors. You can download it from my website:
http://www.pauldee.org/wombat.vim
Enjoy and feel free to merge the additions
June 12, 2008 at 8:05 pm
I agree that this is probably the most pleasant Vim color scheme that I have used. It is close to the “slate” and “darktango” color schemes, but feels somehow fresher. Thanks for the great work!
June 14, 2008 at 9:28 am
Just want to tell you that I’ve been using this color scheme for more than half a year and I’m enjoying it as much as I enjoyed it the first day. Never looked back!
Thank you!
June 28, 2008 at 1:57 am
I used the desert theme for a long time, but recently I “lost” my vimrc file, had to start over, and decided to see what else was out there in terms of themes. I found wombat, and I absolutely loved it. Thanks!
June 29, 2008 at 7:24 pm
I wish I had it for emacs 😦
July 6, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Thank you very much for sharing. This is a very beautiful color scheme
August 27, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Lovely, lovely theme. This is very similar to something I cooked up based on the Django project color scheme, but is way better.
August 31, 2008 at 7:14 am
Wombat is awesome! I have been using it for a few months now. The colors are great and give me plenty of contrast. Thanks a ton for the eye candy.
I did, however, make one change and gave no background color for matching parens. I kept mistaking either matching paren for the cursor, which quickly got annoying.
I changed the following definition:
hi MatchParen guifg=#f6f3e8 guibg=#857b6f gui=bold
to:
hi MatchParen guifg=#f6f3e8 guibg=NONE gui=bold
ATTN sleek: This color scheme is strictly for the gui (notice the abundance of guifg/guibg/gui definitions?). Most terminals support a (very) limited set of colors. Have a look at Paul’s additions which include (similar) terminal colors: http://www.pauldee.org/wombat.vim
September 1, 2008 at 5:37 pm
The best colorscheme ever. And I’ve tried a lot.
Thanks!
September 21, 2008 at 5:22 am
Man… I’m just coming here to thank you again.
This colorscheme rocks so much in my gVim with the Monaco font 🙂
September 22, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Just out of curiosity, what size do you run Consolas at?
No matter what size I run it at it always looks bold and doesnt look like your screenshot at all.
October 10, 2008 at 10:00 pm
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October 29, 2008 at 10:50 am
I am no Emacs expert, but here is my attempt to port Wombat color theme. Just put the following code in your .emacs file:
;;
;; Wombat theme ported from Vim
;;
(set-background-color “#242424”)
(set-foreground-color “#f6f3e8”)
(set-cursor-color “#656565”)
(set-face-foreground ‘font-lock-comment-face “#99968b”)
(set-face-italic-p ‘font-lock-comment-face t)
(set-face-foreground ‘font-lock-doc-face “#99968b”)
(set-face-italic-p ‘font-lock-doc-face t)
(set-face-foreground ‘font-lock-constant-face “#e5786d”)
(set-face-foreground ‘font-lock-string-face “#95e454”)
(set-face-italic-p ‘font-lock-string-face t)
(set-face-foreground ‘font-lock-variable-name-face “#cae682”)
(set-face-foreground ‘font-lock-function-name-face “#cae682”)
(set-face-foreground ‘font-lock-type-face “#cae682”)
(set-face-foreground ‘font-lock-builtin-face “#8ac6f2”)
(set-face-foreground ‘font-lock-keyword-face “#8ac6f2”)
(set-face-foreground ‘font-lock-preprocessor-face “#e5786d”)
(set-face-foreground ‘font-lock-negation-char-face “#e7f6da”)
(set-face-foreground ‘link “#8ac6f2”)
(set-face-bold-p ‘link t)
(set-face-underline-p ‘link t)
(set-face-foreground ‘show-paren-match “#f6f3e8”)
(set-face-background ‘show-paren-match “#857b6f”)
(set-face-bold-p ‘show-paren-match t)
(set-face-foreground ‘region “#f6f3e8”)
(set-face-background ‘region “#444444”)
(set-face-foreground ‘lazy-highlight “black”)
(set-face-background ‘lazy-highlight “yellow”)
December 5, 2008 at 11:01 pm
A slightly modified version of this colorscheme that works with 88 and 256-color xterms as well as the GUI is available at http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2465
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March 8, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Hey, thanks for my new favorite colorscheme! This is precisely what I’ve wanted every time I loaded desert instead ;>
March 20, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Peter, thank you for the emacs port. It works very nicely. I get some errors though. I hope you could finalize it sometime!
It’s great to have wombat “cross-platform” 🙂
April 13, 2009 at 3:59 am
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April 13, 2009 at 4:05 am
Hello Lars :].
I make some changes in your Wombat theme to make it more dark, take a look :]: http://chronosbox.org/blog/wombat-vim-colorscheme-customized?lang=en
April 14, 2009 at 7:41 am
For Emacs users trying to use Peter Severin’s theme, I get errors until I turn paren-mode on.
Put the following line in your .emacs file before his code:
(show-paren-mode t)
Also, I think it should be ‘show-paren-mode-match-face (I’m using Emacs snapshot (so 23a)).
Things should then work fine. Alternatively, you can just comment out the lines that contain show-paren-mode, and the rest of the theme works. Also, putting it into a color-theme-wombat.el and loading with color-theme is nice since you can easily switch between themes, and even have different themes in each buffer.
Thank you, OP, for the theme!
May 1, 2009 at 9:33 am
Awesome. this is my most favorite colorscheme after tried quite a lot others in the past 5 years!
Thank you so much!
July 5, 2009 at 4:51 pm
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July 9, 2009 at 11:47 am
It’s not a bad theme. I had to adjust cursor line, and search highlight colors a bit, but in the end I still prefer desert.
Desert just seems to fit together better.
July 15, 2009 at 7:24 pm
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August 18, 2009 at 2:51 am
Thanks for sharing. Good one!
August 30, 2009 at 2:07 pm
ported to textmate – http://sl-bug.habrahabr.ru/blog/68320/
not so prefect as original, because this is my first theme 🙂
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April 17, 2010 at 7:01 pm
What a great theme! I made some modifications to make it work better with javascript and it’s absolutely my favorite! Thanks for making my code beautiful 😀
July 22, 2010 at 12:30 am
I just felt I should thank the author of the great vim theme I’ve been using for almost a year. Really works amazingly well for me. Thank you very much.
August 17, 2010 at 1:07 pm
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October 25, 2010 at 11:42 am
Nice theme…
November 3, 2010 at 10:41 am
Absolutely brilliant. The best possible balance between necessary contrast and a soothing look that doesn’t burn your retinas after a good long session.
Now, I use gVim with
:se go=
to emulate a terminal just so I can have these awesome colors.
And… it even works beautifully with MacVim. The last colorscheme I’ll ever need… Thanks!
December 6, 2010 at 3:12 am
Any chance of a ‘port’ so I can use the same scheme in idle?
Would be very nice to have matching patterns in both vim and idle…
February 9, 2011 at 3:48 am
wonderful work.
February 22, 2011 at 8:07 am
Wombat is my favorite GVim colorscheme, with only Zenburn and Lucius close behind. Many thanks for inventing this!
February 24, 2011 at 3:09 pm
Hey, I made a version of wombat for emacs which I’m hoping to get included in the official distro. Hoping you don’t have anything against that? I’ll make sure you get credit for coming up with the scheme.
March 12, 2011 at 8:24 am
Great theme! Works perfectly on Windows combined with Consolas.
April 11, 2011 at 5:20 am
I improved the wombat256 theme. In this version you can also use it in vim, not just gvim: http://blog.echofish.org/?p=55
September 20, 2011 at 8:50 am
New address to wombat256i:
http://github.com/echofish/wombat256i
April 17, 2011 at 8:04 pm
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June 24, 2011 at 8:56 am
Mmmmh I have a problem with wombat. I put it in my /etc/vim/colors directory, and when I edit xml, it’s ugly: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4930224/vim-ugly.png
I don’t know why it acts like this…
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November 22, 2011 at 4:27 pm
I have a problem with the wombat scheme. When I try to copy a line, the whole line (with all the spaces after \n) are copied, which is a little annoying. Is that something you experienced as well? How can I fix that?
December 10, 2011 at 4:36 pm
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December 11, 2011 at 7:35 am
Nice job. My new defualt.
December 14, 2011 at 7:05 pm
Pretty freaking cool. Added it to my .vimrc and it’s my new favorite one.
January 18, 2012 at 5:15 am
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March 3, 2012 at 2:10 am
I have searched and searched, but I was never satisfied with the color schmes out there. Well, my search is over!
I love this color scheme!!! Great work, and thank you so much.
May 3, 2012 at 5:04 am
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July 29, 2012 at 12:30 pm
Thank you.. I like this color scheme 🙂
December 18, 2012 at 9:51 am
This is real good. Thank you for your work! !
February 1, 2013 at 11:46 pm
adapted and enhanced for textmate: https://github.com/nerone/wombat-tmtheme
October 26, 2013 at 11:52 am
…still my favorite theme after all these years; good job!
March 22, 2014 at 2:53 pm
thanks for this lovely custom theme. I love it’s color scheme. awesome
April 17, 2014 at 11:20 am
Hello, nice theme.. how can i change the background color of the tree of folders of remote systems? Thank you very much
January 25, 2015 at 10:17 am
Thanks!
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