Re: [cream] Cream and personalized color themes.

[Steve H. <dig...@da...>]

On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 12:20 -0300, Bira wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I've been using Cream for a while to code, and I have a question to
> which I've been unable to find answers on the official website or
> through Google.
> 
> Is there a way to add personalized color themes to Cream, other than
> changing the source? In other words, is there something I can add to
> cream-user.vim or to another file to make a new theme show up on the
> theme selection menu? Where should I place the theme file for Cream
> to see it?

It is easy to add a personalized color scheme. Start with an existing
theme, you'll notice each has a "+++ Cream:" to "+++" set of brackets
with Cream's custom highlighting groups. Then just source it in your
cream-user file like this:

  source /path/to/scheme/mycolors.vim

More about the cream-user here:

  http://cream.sourceforge.net/faq.html#0201


> Also, a related question: What do I need to add to a Vim color theme
> to make it compatible with Cream? I'm not very familiar with Cream's
> inner workings or with vimscript, but I would like to learn a bit
> about it.

Just make sure you include the groups in the "+++" bracketed sections
mentioned above, these help with the statusline, spellcheck,
bookmarks, invisible characters, email signatures, and current line
highlighting. 


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Steve Hall  [ digitect dancingpaper com ]
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