vim-monokai-tasty

Monokai forever! 🎉 Inspired by Sublime Text's interpretation of monokai, this colour is both gui- and cterm-supported. It works for all languages, and is particularly good for JavaScript and TypeScript development ❤️

Unlike other monokai implementations, vim-monokai-tasty targets named syntax groups from a variety of modern syntax group plugins (listed below). *74% tastier than competitors 🌮

*according to me

🔌 Installation

I recommend using Plug.

Add the following to your .vimrc and run PlugInstall

Plug 'patstockwell/vim-monokai-tasty'

If you use Vundle:

Plugin 'patstockwell/vim-monokai-tasty'

🐺 Use

Add the following to your .vimrc (after the Plug declaration):

colorscheme vim-monokai-tasty

If you use a terminal that supports italic text, add (before the colorscheme declaration):

let g:vim_monokai_tasty_italic = 1
colorscheme vim-monokai-tasty

To use the included lightline.vim theme:

let g:lightline = {
      \ 'colorscheme': 'monokai_tasty',
      \ }

To use the included vim-airline theme:

let g:airline_theme='monokai_tasty'

📚 Additional plugins with targeted syntax groups

For JavaScript, TypeScript, and React development, monokai-tasty supports definitions from all these plugins. Add some of these for an even better look and feel:

Plug 'HerringtonDarkholme/yats.vim'
Plug 'pangloss/vim-javascript'
Plug 'MaxMEllon/vim-jsx-pretty'
Plug 'styled-components/vim-styled-components'
Plug 'elzr/vim-json'
Plug 'jparise/vim-graphql'

🔮 Extras

If you use iterm2 (you should), there is an included monokai.itermcolors file.
If you use GnuCoreutils there is a dircolors file (compliments the iterm colours)

📺 Screen shots

⭐ Example `.vimrc`

" put Plug declaration first
call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
Plug 'patstockwell/vim-monokai-tasty'
Plug 'HerringtonDarkholme/yats.vim'
Plug 'pangloss/vim-javascript'
Plug 'MaxMEllon/vim-jsx-pretty'
Plug 'elzr/vim-json'
Plug 'styled-components/vim-styled-components'
Plug 'itchyny/lightline.vim'
Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline'
call plug#end()

let g:vim_monokai_tasty_italic = 1                    " allow italics, set this before the colorscheme
colorscheme vim-monokai-tasty                         " set the colorscheme

" Optional themes for airline/lightline
let g:airline_theme='monokai_tasty'                   " airline theme
let g:lightline = { 'colorscheme': 'monokai_tasty' }  " lightline theme

" If you don't like a particular colour choice from `vim-monokai-tasty`, you can
" override it here. For example, to change the colour of the search hightlight:
hi Search guifg=#bada55 guibg=#000000 gui=bold ctermfg=green ctermbg=black cterm=bold

" If you don't know what the name of a particular hightlight is, you can use
" `What`. It will print out the syntax group that the cursor is currently above.
" from https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6z4aau/how_to_stop_vim_from_autohighlighting_italics_in/
command! What echo synIDattr(synID(line('.'), col('.'), 1), 'name')