Vim color scheme: Wombat
January 22, 2007
I have put together a color scheme for (G)Vim called Wombat. Dark gray background with easy-on-the-eyes font colors. It shares some similarities with the Desert color scheme. Here are a couple of shots:
Download the Wombat color scheme. Enjoy… 
January 27, 2007 at 7:39 am
Thanks for sharing this! It’s my new favourite vim theme.
January 27, 2007 at 9:49 am
You are very welcome. It’s nice to hear from someone who likes the color scheme.
February 8, 2007 at 9:36 pm
What font is that?
February 9, 2007 at 3:41 pm
The font is called Consolas. It is a Microsoft font intended for use with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, but you can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=22e69ae4-7e40-4807-8a86-b3d36fab68d3&displaylang=en
February 19, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Great job on the colorscheme.
I’ve been using it as my default one since I discovered it a few days ago.
Thanks!
February 19, 2007 at 1:50 pm
BTW, I did make 1 small change to it though. You didn’t have a color defined for the FoldColumn attribute, so I added one and assigned it the same color as Folded.
February 20, 2007 at 10:13 am
jvana: Thank you very much. Nice to hear that you like the colorscheme. As for the FoldColumn attribute, I will add it to the scheme myself. There are a few more attributes that I would like to add, so I will make the updated version of the scheme available when I get around to adding them
February 25, 2007 at 3:18 am
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September 16, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Very good color scheme. Only one remark: the color of the Cursor and Visual seems too similar to the Normal background color; thus the cursor and the selection can be hardly distinguished.
September 30, 2007 at 12:40 pm
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November 12, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Also my new favorite theme. Thank you for sharing!
December 16, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Very cool colorscheme. I love it. Thaaanks
December 25, 2007 at 11:00 am
Fantastic color scheme. I have been looking for
something like this for ages. Thank you so much..
February 17, 2008 at 2:29 am
thank you for creating such a beautiful scheme. I’ve been looking at it everyday for a couple of months now, and i love it !
February 28, 2008 at 7:45 am
very cool, a bit buggy in normal vim with ubuntu 7.10.
nice and easy to read, well done!
March 19, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Great color scheme! Thanks for sharing it, and for sharing the font too. I downloaded the first and I’m downloading the second too.
Great work =)
May 5, 2008 at 6:08 am
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May 17, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Awesome theme. Works great in GVIM, but doesn’t look the same in VIM. Any ideas why?
May 17, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I LOVE wombat but is always bothered me that theme didn’t translate well the a 256-color xterm. I made a version that includes the cterm colors. You can download it from my website:
http://www.pauldee.org/wombat.vim
Enjoy and feel free to merge the additions
June 12, 2008 at 8:05 pm
I agree that this is probably the most pleasant Vim color scheme that I have used. It is close to the “slate” and “darktango” color schemes, but feels somehow fresher. Thanks for the great work!
June 14, 2008 at 9:28 am
Just want to tell you that I’ve been using this color scheme for more than half a year and I’m enjoying it as much as I enjoyed it the first day. Never looked back!
Thank you!
June 28, 2008 at 1:57 am
I used the desert theme for a long time, but recently I “lost” my vimrc file, had to start over, and decided to see what else was out there in terms of themes. I found wombat, and I absolutely loved it. Thanks!
June 29, 2008 at 7:24 pm
I wish I had it for emacs
July 6, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Thank you very much for sharing. This is a very beautiful color scheme
August 27, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Lovely, lovely theme. This is very similar to something I cooked up based on the Django project color scheme, but is way better.
August 31, 2008 at 7:14 am
Wombat is awesome! I have been using it for a few months now. The colors are great and give me plenty of contrast. Thanks a ton for the eye candy.
I did, however, make one change and gave no background color for matching parens. I kept mistaking either matching paren for the cursor, which quickly got annoying.
I changed the following definition:
hi MatchParen guifg=#f6f3e8 guibg=#857b6f gui=bold
to:
hi MatchParen guifg=#f6f3e8 guibg=NONE gui=bold
ATTN sleek: This color scheme is strictly for the gui (notice the abundance of guifg/guibg/gui definitions?). Most terminals support a (very) limited set of colors. Have a look at Paul’s additions which include (similar) terminal colors: http://www.pauldee.org/wombat.vim
September 1, 2008 at 5:37 pm
The best colorscheme ever. And I’ve tried a lot.
Thanks!
September 21, 2008 at 5:22 am
Man… I’m just coming here to thank you again.
This colorscheme rocks so much in my gVim with the Monaco font
September 22, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Just out of curiosity, what size do you run Consolas at?
No matter what size I run it at it always looks bold and doesnt look like your screenshot at all.
October 10, 2008 at 10:00 pm
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October 29, 2008 at 10:50 am
I am no Emacs expert, but here is my attempt to port Wombat color theme. Just put the following code in your .emacs file:
;;
;; Wombat theme ported from Vim
;;
(set-background-color “#242424″)
(set-foreground-color “#f6f3e8″)
(set-cursor-color “#656565″)
(set-face-foreground ‘font-lock-comment-face “#99968b”)
(set-face-italic-p ‘font-lock-comment-face t)
(set-face-foreground ‘font-lock-doc-face “#99968b”)
(set-face-italic-p ‘font-lock-doc-face t)
(set-face-foreground ‘font-lock-constant-face “#e5786d”)
(set-face-foreground ‘font-lock-string-face “#95e454″)
(set-face-italic-p ‘font-lock-string-face t)
(set-face-foreground ‘font-lock-variable-name-face “#cae682″)
(set-face-foreground ‘font-lock-function-name-face “#cae682″)
(set-face-foreground ‘font-lock-type-face “#cae682″)
(set-face-foreground ‘font-lock-builtin-face “#8ac6f2″)
(set-face-foreground ‘font-lock-keyword-face “#8ac6f2″)
(set-face-foreground ‘font-lock-preprocessor-face “#e5786d”)
(set-face-foreground ‘font-lock-negation-char-face “#e7f6da”)
(set-face-foreground ‘link “#8ac6f2″)
(set-face-bold-p ‘link t)
(set-face-underline-p ‘link t)
(set-face-foreground ’show-paren-match “#f6f3e8″)
(set-face-background ’show-paren-match “#857b6f”)
(set-face-bold-p ’show-paren-match t)
(set-face-foreground ‘region “#f6f3e8″)
(set-face-background ‘region “#444444″)
(set-face-foreground ‘lazy-highlight “black”)
(set-face-background ‘lazy-highlight “yellow”)
December 5, 2008 at 11:01 pm
A slightly modified version of this colorscheme that works with 88 and 256-color xterms as well as the GUI is available at http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2465
December 11, 2008 at 2:03 pm
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March 8, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Hey, thanks for my new favorite colorscheme! This is precisely what I’ve wanted every time I loaded desert instead ;>
March 20, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Peter, thank you for the emacs port. It works very nicely. I get some errors though. I hope you could finalize it sometime!
It’s great to have wombat “cross-platform”
April 13, 2009 at 3:59 am
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April 13, 2009 at 4:05 am
Hello Lars :].
I make some changes in your Wombat theme to make it more dark, take a look :]: http://chronosbox.org/blog/wombat-vim-colorscheme-customized?lang=en
April 14, 2009 at 7:41 am
For Emacs users trying to use Peter Severin’s theme, I get errors until I turn paren-mode on.
Put the following line in your .emacs file before his code:
(show-paren-mode t)
Also, I think it should be ’show-paren-mode-match-face (I’m using Emacs snapshot (so 23a)).
Things should then work fine. Alternatively, you can just comment out the lines that contain show-paren-mode, and the rest of the theme works. Also, putting it into a color-theme-wombat.el and loading with color-theme is nice since you can easily switch between themes, and even have different themes in each buffer.
Thank you, OP, for the theme!
May 1, 2009 at 9:33 am
Awesome. this is my most favorite colorscheme after tried quite a lot others in the past 5 years!
Thank you so much!
May 24, 2009 at 5:11 pm
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May 24, 2009 at 8:03 pm
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May 26, 2009 at 6:35 am
Красавчег! Пиши исчё!
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