Windflower Colorscheme for Vim/Neovim

A beautiful dark terminal vim colorscheme derived from the classic RailsCasts TextMate theme, modernized for both vim 8+ and neovim with true color support.

Features

✨ Modern Compatibility: Works seamlessly with both traditional vim and neovim
🎨 True Color Support: Automatically detects and uses 24-bit colors when available
🔄 Fallback Support: Gracefully falls back to 256-color terminal mode
🌙 Dark Theme: Carefully crafted dark colorscheme easy on the eyes
⚡ Optimized: Language-specific highlighting for Ruby, Python, C/C++, HTML/XML
📦 Zero Dependencies: No external dependencies or requirements

Screenshots

The colorscheme provides consistent, readable syntax highlighting across different file types:

• Comments: Warm brown (#af875f) that's visible but not distracting
• Strings: Soft green (#87af5f) for easy string identification
• Keywords: Orange (#af5f00) for language keywords and statements
• Functions: Bright yellow (#ffd75f) to make function calls stand out
• Types: Coral (#d75f5f) for type definitions and declarations
• Numbers/Booleans: Light blue (#87afd7) for literals

Installation

Using vim-plug (Recommended)

Add this line to your .vimrc or init.vim:

Plug 'mushanyoung/vim-windflower'

Then run :PlugInstall in vim.

Manual Installation

1. Download the windflower.vim file
2. Place it in your ~/.vim/colors/ directory (create if it doesn't exist)
3. For neovim: place it in ~/.config/nvim/colors/

Usage

Add this line to your .vimrc or init.vim:

colorscheme windflower

Enabling True Colors (Recommended)

For the best experience with modern terminals that support 24-bit colors, add this to your configuration:

" Enable true color support
if has('termguicolors')
  set termguicolors
endif

colorscheme windflower

Terminal Compatibility

Windflower works with:

• ✅ True Color Terminals: iTerm2, Alacritty, Kitty, Wezterm, modern Terminal.app
• ✅ 256-Color Terminals: Most modern terminal emulators
• ✅ Terminal Multiplexers: tmux (with proper configuration), screen
• ✅ SSH Sessions: Works over SSH when terminal supports it

For tmux users, ensure true color forwarding:

# Add to ~/.tmux.conf
set -g default-terminal "screen-256color"
set -ag terminal-overrides ",xterm-256color:RGB"

Language Support

Windflower includes optimized highlighting for:

• Ruby: Enhanced class, method, and variable highlighting
• Python: Proper exception and docstring support
• C/C++: STL namespace and template highlighting
• HTML/XML: Tag and attribute highlighting
• JavaScript/TypeScript: Modern syntax support
• Markdown: Header and emphasis styling
• Git Diffs: Clear addition/deletion highlighting

Color Palette

Element	Terminal Color	True Color	Usage
Background	234	#1c1c1c	Editor background
Foreground	254	#e4e4e4	Normal text
Comments	137	#af875f	Code comments
Strings	107	#87af5f	String literals
Keywords	130	#af5f00	Language keywords
Functions	221	#ffd75f	Function names
Types	167	#d75f5f	Type definitions
Numbers	110	#87afd7	Numeric literals