The VIM color scheme is way different than the real one Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 98131 [details] kate highlighting
Created attachment 98132 [details] vim highlighting
Could you include the example file to speed up testing?
Well, also the vim highlighting depends on the color scheme that is chosen in vim. And that also may differ, depending on the default color scheme the distribution ships, so it's hard to have 100% feature parity. This is not really a bug - but should probably be changed anyways. Can you change the colors, and then send us your "Vim Dark" section of your kateschemarc file? (Only change the default styles, not the syntax highlighting for each language itself).
Now I'm on another PC with Kate 15.12.3 Color scheme is better but still different to vim for C files, but is almost unreadable for shell scripts because of the dark gray "echo" and [] on black background This is my "vim dark" scheme: [Vim (dark)] ShippedDefaultSchema=6000 Color Background=0,0,0 Color Code Folding=0,43,38 Color Highlighted Bracket=68,0,170 Color Highlighted Line=23,0,59 Color Icon Bar=0,0,0 Color Indentation Line=42,0,210 Color Line Number=0,93,122 Color MarkType1=0,0,255 Color MarkType2=255,0,0 Color MarkType3=255,255,0 Color MarkType4=255,0,255 Color MarkType5=160,160,164 Color MarkType6=0,255,0 Color MarkType7=255,0,0 Color Modified Lines=84,255,84 Color Replace Highlight=84,255,84 Color Saved Lines=84,84,255 Color Search Highlight=255,255,0 Color Selection=35,35,35 Color Spelling Mistake Line=255,0,0 Color Tab Marker=65,65,65 Color Template Background=204,204,204 Color Template Editable Placeholder=204,255,204 Color Template Focused Editable Placeholder=102,255,102 Color Template Not Editable Placeholder=255,204,204 Color Word Wrap Marker=38,38,38
Created attachment 99838 [details] kate shell highlighting
Created attachment 99839 [details] vim shell highlighting
Created attachment 99855 [details] vim makefile highlighting
Created attachment 99856 [details] kate makefile highlighting
Sorry, I forgot to add that you also need to attach from katesyntaxhighlightingrc this section: [Default Item Styles - Schema Vim (Dark)]
Here is it: # Vim (dark), Default Item Styles [Default Item Styles - Schema Vim (dark)] Alert=ffbf0303,ffbf0303,1,,,,fff7e6e6,-,,--- Base-N Integer=ffff54ff,ffff54ff,1,,,,-,-,,--- Character=ffff54ff,ffff54ff,1,,,,-,-,,--- Comment=ff5454ff,ff5454ff,1,,,,-,-,,--- Data Type=ff54ff54,ff54ff54,1,,,,-,-,,--- Decimal/Value=ffff54ff,ffff54ff,1,,,,-,-,,--- Error=ffbf0303,ffbf0303,0,0,0,,-,-,,--- Floating Point=ffff54ff,ffff54ff,1,,,,-,-,,--- Function=ff644a9b,ff644a9b,,,,,-,-,,--- Keyword=ffdede49,ffdede49,1,,,,-,-,,--- Normal=ffb2b2b2,ffb2b2b2,1,0,,,-,-,,--- Others=ff006e28,ff006e28,,,,,-,-,,--- Region Marker=ff0095ff,ff0095ff,1,,,,ff22226d,-,,--- String=ffaf7f00,ffaf7f00,1,,,,-,-,,---
Git commit 36f03120889b8cba042603e990df737365f3363b by Dominik Haumann. Committed on 15/08/2018 at 09:37. Pushed by dhaumann into branch 'master'. Improve vim color theme M +3 -3 src/data/katesyntaxhighlightingrc https://commits.kde.org/ktexteditor/36f03120889b8cba042603e990df737365f3363b
Created attachment 115873 [details] screenshot Color schemeis way very different than VIM one, eg. strings are brown instead of pink