created by

Charles Campbell

script type

utility

description

<gvcolors.vim> displays a list of colors available under X-windows in their own color.  It is based on vimtip#634 contributed by mohsin at http://www.cs.albany.edu/~mosh. The script intercepts several motions and sets up syntax highlighting to display the named colors. Example:   gvim gvcolors.vim   :GVColors Motions:    j      move display down one line    k      move display up   one line ctrl-d   move display down &scroll lines (see :he 'scroll') ctrl-u   move display up   &scroll lines (see :he 'scroll') ctrl-f   move display down one page ctrl-b   move display up   one page pageup   same as ctrl-b pagedown same as ctrl-f Special care to show just a single page of colors is taken because Vim is limited to displaying approximately 224 colors with syntax highlighting. History/Features: v3: Supports use of the mouse and slider bars. v2: Looks up colors in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt, which may be overridden by let g:rgbtxtfile="path"; now shows red:green:blue assignments as well as the colored text! (alpha/beta version available at http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#GVCOLORS)

install details

Put <gvcolors.vim> wherever its convenient (its *not* a plugin):   gvim gvcolors.vba.gz   :so %

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
gvcolors.vba.gz	6	2007-10-10	7.0	Charles Campbell	* allows rightmouse to click between dark & bright backgrounds * double-click with leftmouse will pull the color line up to the top of the screen, thereby displaying its rgb values * Vim version 7 now supports 1000s of highlighting groups; gvcolors takes advantage of that * Looks in some more places for where the rgb.txt file may be.
gvcolors.vim	5	2004-07-13	6.0	Charles Campbell	Quicker refresh when moving in the text via the scrollbar.  Up to 188 colors can be shown at a time; this is a slight reduction to avoid problems with Vim's limited quantity of concurrently displayable colors.
gvcolors.vim	4	2004-04-02	6.0	Charles Campbell	Shift-Leftmouse will toggle gvcolors' background between dark and light. Bugfix: full screen displays can result in too many colors for Vim to display at one time; gvcolors now limits itself to 192 colors (any more will be set to "Ignore" highlighting).

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