Currently using Nord for most everything (emacs, iTerm). Comments are muted, identifiers stand out, keywords are different but don't. Before that it was zenburn which has similar "low contrast" colors.

I like dark backgrounds and those two work well without being angry fruit salad (e.g. dark background solarized feels slightly LOUD).

Update: Actually I do use the monokai (c.f. emacs version) for bat (a colourizing cat(1) drop in) which is marginally irate fruit salad.

I think I have a non-standard coloring scheme. This shows a small piece of perl code. As for choroba it developed over time, and was chosen to be a compromise between easy to read and standing out. I like grayish backgrounds. Another reason is it fits well in my simple design for presentations I have used over the years.

FWIW, as I (still) use "elvis" (instead of vim, as (g)vim is very hard to get compiled on HP-UX and AIX with a working GUI), I do not use a named color scheme as g/vim offers.

I mostly use SciTE for editing and use its default colours. A lot of thought seems to have been put into them, and they work pretty well. Comments are green; keywords are blue and bold; certain operators and other punctuation are black and bold. Scalar identifiers have a pink/red background; array identifiers have yellow backgrounds (and so does qw(...)); hash identifiers have purple backgrounds; regexps have green backgrounds. String constants are kind of purple; numeric constants are kind of aqua. That's about it, I think.

Yup, SciTE is very nice

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I generally use Emacs' CPerl mode and its default syntax highlighting colors on a light background. I have found that having a consistent set is more valuable than any particular aesthetics, but your mileage may vary.

After activating a theme via M-x load-theme you'll get a "consistent set" of colours.

I'm using zenburn - a port from vim - but there are many more available.

Cheers Rolf
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By "consistent" I meant more that the colors do not change. In other words, picking a color scheme and staying with it, and I have been using Emacs for much longer than I have known that it had this feature... but maybe it is time to try a change...

Thanks.

I use the default colours, but I enable subroutine folding:

" allow folding of Perl subs
"let perl_fold = 1

function GetPerlFold()
  if getline(v:lnum) =~ '^\s*sub\s'
    return ">1"
  elseif getline(v:lnum) =~ '\}\s*$'
    let my_perlnum = v:lnum
    let my_perlmax = line("$")
    while (1)
      let my_perlnum = my_perlnum + 1
      if my_perlnum > my_perlmax
        return "<1"
      endif
      let my_perldata = getline(my_perlnum)
      if my_perldata =~ '^\s*\(\#.*\)\?$'
        " do nothing
      elseif my_perldata =~ '^\s*sub\s'
        return "<1"
      else
        return "="
      endif
    endwhile
  else
    return "="
  endif
endfunction
setlocal foldexpr=GetPerlFold()
setlocal foldmethod=expr
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Here's an example of what it looks like. Use zo to open a fold, and zc to close it back up.

koehler

I don't care much about the color scheme. During my daily work, I switch between at least four editors (AtmelStudio, Notepad++, joe in a PuTTY or xterm window, Qt Creator). All of them have usable defaults, except for PuTTYs dark blue on black, which is a little bit too dark and has to be changed. All editors highlight keywords, strings, comments, and some other things, and that's good enough for me. I work with different languages (C, C++, Perl, Bash, Batches, XML, HTML, Markdown, and others), with different highlighting, and so things never look the same anyway.

Alexander

I use "darkblue" where I don't care for any particular scheme other than one having decent contrast between text & dark background. (In my own $ENV I have my own color schemes which is not as complete (due to incomplete syntax matching) as the ones included with vim, and I could not care less.) In any case I have found colors for word completion list & comment color (dark blue on black background) to be horrible in the default/no particular scheme (vim 7, 8), and not good enough under "darkblue".

Forgot that colors for diff are horrible too, so need to be modified ...

 " Change colors for vimdiff to make text readable.
 if &diff
   syn off
   hi clear

   " Magenta.
   " Text with no changes.
   highlight Normal term=none cterm=italic ctermfg=5 ctermbg=0

   " Green.
   " Text added; appears beside text-removed.
   highlight DiffAdd    term=bold,underline  cterm=bold ctermfg=2 cter
+mbg=0  gui=none  guifg=bg guibg=Red
   "
   " Red.
   " Text removed, namely "-----" indicator.
   highlight DiffDelete term=reverse   cterm=bold ctermfg=1 ctermbg=0 
+ gui=none  guifg=bg guibg=Red

   " White
   " Text of the line with change.
   highlight DiffChange term=underline cterm=none ctermfg=7 ctermbg=0 
+ gui=none  guifg=bg guibg=Red
   "
   " Yellow.
   " Changed text.
   highlight DiffText   term=bold      cterm=bold ctermfg=3 ctermbg=0 
+ gui=none  guifg=bg guibg=Red
 endif
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