created by

Jaime Wottrich

script type

color scheme

description

The MimicPak is a set of 17 colorschemes which were converted (ripped-off) from other editors and IDEs and that use and share some common tweaking options, like the font style among others.  Some original, personal, invented and cloned colorschemes are included too. The IDEs/Editors may have had more colorschemes, but only some (which I think that were great) are included.  Most of the colorschemes are only for gVim, this is so, because of time reasons and available number of colors.  However, you can use the CSApprox plugin ( vimscript#2390 ) to use them on 88/256 color terms.  Although some of them have the cterm colors for 16 color terminals. For a fast way to try out these schemes, the included mimicpak.vim plugin script creates a submenu "MimicPak" under the "Themes" menu on the main menubar. After correctly installing this pack, you can see the help with:    :h mimicpak        >> to get general help    :h mimic-overview        >> quick overview of colorschemes by background colors.    :h mimic-options        >> to see the shared options.    :h name_of_scheme.vim          >> to see specific options (if any) of a  particular colorscheme. ================ SHARED OPTIONS ================ All the included colorschemes use and share the following common option variables (these can either be set as: buffer, window, tabpage or global) :    * mimic_font_style:  controls the style of the fonts.         let  mimic_font_style = 0    " schemes will use plain fonts         let  mimic_font_style = 1    " schemes will use bold fonts         let  mimic_font_style = 2    " schemes will use italic fonts         let  mimic_font_style = 3    " schemes will use bold and italic fonts    * mimic_colorize_gui:  if set, GUI elements (menu, toolbar,         scrollbar) will be colorized (works only for some GUIs). That said, you only need to set these options once and you'll get the same look when changing to another of these schemes. For further help about these, try:    :h mimic_font_style    :h mimic_colorize_gui ============== SCREENSHOTS ============== Here are some: http://img97.imageshack.us/g/scameemacsplain.png/ A slideshow: http://img513.imageshack.us/slideshow/player.php?id=img513/5013/1256781939pe8.smil Most of the included colorschemes are intended to be "easy on the eyes" (well, almost) and I hope that you might find at least 2 or 3 colorschemes from this pack that you could use for every day coding :) If you like it (or if you don't) PLEASE RATE this thing!

install details

* For the compressed Vimball file (.vba.gz):   Just open it in Vim/gVim and then type:    :so %    :q   And that's all. [Windows users: you'll need to have gzip in your %PATH%]. * For the zip file (.zip): extract them to a directory that is in your 'runtimepath'.    On Unix/linux:  $HOME/.vim/    On Windows:  %USERPROFILE%\vimfiles\ or YOUR_VIM_INSTALLATION_PATH\vimfiles\ Then open Vim/gVim and type:    :helptags THE_EXTRACTION_PATH/doc After correct installation, you can see the help with:    :h mimicpak    :h mimicpak-toc That's all... Enjoy!

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
mimicpak.zip	1.0	2009-10-29	6.0	Jaime Wottrich	Zip version (if you still use Vim 6).
mimicpak.vba.gz	1.0	2009-10-29	6.0	Jaime Wottrich	Initial upload

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