# Default Settings Preview

![lua preview](./media/preview.png "Lua Preview")

# Introduction

`nvim-highlite` is a colorscheme template repository for Neovim 0.5+.

This template's _defaults_ focus on:

1. Compatability with [semantic highlighting](https://medium.com/@evnbr/coding-in-color-3a6db2743a1e).
	* I was using colorschemes that often did not provide enough highlight groups to provide distinction between tokens.
2. Visibility in any range of blue-light.
	* I use `redshift` often, and many colorschemes did not allow for me to see when I had lower color temperatures.

This template's _design_ focuses on:

1. Ease of use and rapid development.
	* New features may simply be integrated with current configurations, rather than rewritten over them.
	* Merging with the upstream repository is simplified by GitHub, allowing you to select what new defaults to add.
	* It provides a large supply of defaults for plugins and programming languages.
		* Define a smaller set of "categorical" highlights (see Neovim's `group-name` help page) and many more will `link` automatically.
2. Inversion of Control
	* Changes made to the highlighting algorithm won't affect how you write your colorscheme.
	* New highlight group attributes which are unaccounted for in older versions will simply be ignored without errors due to Lua's `table`s.

# Prerequisites

1. Neovim 0.5+

# Usage

## Creating Your Own

1. This repository should be forked, or cloned with `git clone https://github.com/Iron-E/nvim-highlite`.
2. Follow the instructions in [`colors/highlite.vim`](colors/highlite.vim).
	* If you are on a Unix system, use the [setup script](setup.sh) like so:
	```sh
	chmod +x ./setup.sh
	./setup.sh highlite <colorscheme>
	```
	Where `<colorscheme>` is the name of your desired colorscheme.
	* If you are on Windows, rename the files manually.

## Just The Defaults

1. Install a plugin manager such as [`vim-plug`](https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug) and use it to "plug" this repository.
	```viml
	" vim-plug example
	Plug "Iron-E/nvim-highlite"
	```
2. Specify this colorscheme as your default colorscheme in the `init.vim`:
	```viml
	" Enable 24-bit color output. Only do this if your environment supports it.
	" This plugin works 100% fine with 8-bit, 16-bit, and 24-bit colors.
	set termguicolors
	" Use the colorscheme
	colorscheme highlite
	```

## Examples

This repository in itself is an example of how to use `nvim-highlite`. Aside from this, the following colorschemes are built using `nvim-highlite`:

* (if you use this, open an issue and I'll add it here!)

```lua
--[[Keep in mind, the following example is meant to be used within the context of the `colors/highlite.vim` file.]]
-- First, define some colors
local red = {'#FF0000', 1, 'red'}
local black = {'#000000', 0, 'black'}
local white = {'#FFFFFF', 255, 'white'}

-- Next define some highlight groups.
local highlight_groups = {
	-- Any field which can be set to "NONE" doesn't need to be set, it will be automatically assumed to be "NONE".
	Identifier = {bg=red, fg=black, style='bold'},
	-- If you want to have a colorscheme which is responsive to multiple background settings, you can do that too:
	Function = {dark={bg=black}, light={bg=white}, fg=red}
	--[[ Note that light/dark differentiation is completely optional. ]]
}

-- The rest is mostly handled by the template.
```

## FAQ

> Why am I receiving `E5108: Error executing lua [string ":lua"]:1: module '<colorscheme>' not found`?

* Ensure your colorscheme's base folder is in Neovim's `rtp` before sourcing.

> What syntax files should I use for `X` language?

You can either use [`nvim-treesitter`](https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter), or one of the following:

| Language   | Syntax Plugin                                                                               |
|:-----------|:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| ALGOL      | [`sterpe/vim-algol68`](https://github.com/sterpe/vim-algol68)                               |
| C++        | [`bfrg/vim-cpp-modern`](https://github.com/bfrg/vim-cpp-modern)                             |
| Dart       | [`dart-lang/dart-vim-plugin`](https://github.com/dart-lang/dart-vim-plugin)                 |
| DTrace     | [`vim-scripts/dtrace-syntax-file`](https://github.com/vim-scripts/dtrace-syntax-file)       |
| F#         | [`ionide/Ionide-vim`](https://github.com/ionide/Ionide-vim)                                 |
| Gas        | [`Shirk/vim-gas`](https://github.com/Shirk/vim-gas)                                         |
| Git        | [`tpope/vim-git`](https://github.com/tpope/vim-git)                                         |
| Go         | [`fatih/vim-go`](https://github.com/fatih/vim-go)                                           |
| GraphViz   | [`liuchengxu/graphviz`](https://github.com/liuchengxu/graphviz)                             |
| HTML5      | [`othree/html5`](https://github.com/othree/html5)                                           |
| i3conf     | [`mboughaba/i3config`](https://github.com/mboughaba/i3config)                               |
| JSON       | [`elzr/vim-json`](https://github.com/elzr/vim-json)                                         |
| Java       | [`uiiaoo/java-syntax`](https://github.com/uiiaoo/java-syntax)                               |
| JavaScript | [`pangloss/vim-javascript`](https://github.com/pangloss/vim-javascript)                     |
| Julia      | [`JuliaEditorSupport/julia-vim`](https://github.com/JuliaEditorSupport/julia-vim)           |
| Kotlin     | [`udalov/kotlin-vim`](https://github.com/udalov/kotlin-vim)                                 |
| LESS       | [`groenewege/vim-less`](https://github.com/groenewege/vim-less)                             |
| LLVM       | [`rhysd/vim-llvm`](https://github.com/rhysd/vim-llvm)                                       |
| Lua        | [`tbastos/vim-lua`](https://github.com/tbastos/vim-lua)                                     |
| Markdown   | [`plasticboy/vim-markdown`](https://github.com/plasticboy/vim-markdown)                     |
| MIPS       | [`vim-scripts/mips`](https://github.com/vim-scripts/mips)                                   |
| Moonscript | [`leafo/moonscript-vim`](https://github.com/leafo/moonscript-vim)                           |
| PlantUML   | [`aklt/plantuml-syntax`](https://github.com/aklt/plantuml-syntax)                           |
| Prettier   | [`prettier/vim-prettier`](https://github.com/prettier/vim-prettier)                         |
| Python     | [`vim-python/python-syntax`](https://github.com/vim-python/python-syntax)                   |
| Razor      | [`adamclerk/vim-razor`](https://github.com/adamclerk/vim-razor)                             |
| RST        | [`marshallward/vim-restructuredtext`](https://github.com/marshallward/vim-restructuredtext) |
| Ruby       | [`vim-ruby/vim-ruby`](https://github.com/vim-ruby/vim-ruby)                                 |
| SCSS       | [`cakebaker/scss-syntax`](https://github.com/cakebaker/scss-syntax)                         |
| SQL        | [`shmup/vim-sql-syntax`](https://github.com/shmup/vim-sql-syntax)                           |
| Shell      | [`arzg/vim-sh`](https://github.com/arzg/vim-sh)                                             |
| Stylus     | [`wavded/vim-stylus`](https://github.com/wavded/vim-stylus)                                 |
| SystemD    | [`wgwoods/vim-systemd-syntax`](https://github.com/wgwoods/vim-systemd-syntax)               |
| SystemTap  | [`nickhutchinson/vim-systemtap`](https://github.com/nickhutchinson/vim-systemtap)           |
| TOML       | [`cespare/vim-toml`](https://github.com/cespare/vim-toml)                                   |
| TeX        | [`lervag/vimtex`](https://github.com/lervag/vimtex)                                         |
| Ungrammar  | [`Iron-E/vim-ungrammar`](https://github.com/Iron-E/vim-ungrammar)                           |
| VB.NET     | [`vim-scripts/vbnet`](https://github.com/vim-scripts/vbnet)                                 |
| Vim Logs   | [`MTDL9/vim-log-highlighting`](https://github.com/MTDL9/vim-log-highlighting)               |
| Vimscript  | [`vim-jp/syntax-vim-ex`](https://github.com/vim-jp/syntax-vim-ex)                           |
| XML        | [`amadeus/vim-xml`](https://github.com/amadeus/vim-xml)                                     |
| YAML       | [`stephpy/vim-yaml`](https://github.com/stephpy/vim-yaml)                                   |
| YATS       | [`HerringtonDarkholme/yats`](https://github.com/HerringtonDarkholme/yats)                   |