TerminalColors

Utility program for converting vim colorschemes to GNOME Terminal colors

Howto

Mapping file

Lines in format:

    key=value

Possible keys:

    background, foreground, bold, black, lblack, red, lred, green, lgreen, yellow, lyellow,
    blue, lblue, cyan, lcyan, purple, lpurple, white, lwhite

For pairs [colorname] and l[colorname] at leas one of the two must be set. If one of them is missing color value is calculate from the other (10% darker than light color or 10% lighter than normal color)

Values:

There are two supported value formats:

• Color in hexadecimal notation (#000000)

• Color name from vim colorscheme

    let [a-z]+:%s *= *\"(#[0-9a-fA-F]{6})\"
  

Running

    $ python terminalcolors.py path/to/mapping/file path/to/vim/colorscheme

If successful, new profile with colors set will be avaliable in Gnome Terminal

Testing

To see if all the colors are mapped correctly run:

    $ ./colortest.sh

Example

Conversion of vim coloscheme hybrid

Mapping file

color_mapping:

background=background
foreground=foreground
bold=aqua
black=#000000
lblack=#666666
red=red
green=green
yellow=yellow
blue=blue
cyan=aqua
purple=purple
white=#929395

Command

$ python terminalcolors.py color_mapping path/to/hybrid.vim

Final result