vim-msx-colors

This is an MSX-like color scheme for graphical vim. If you wish, you can use MSX palette directly: the dictionary g:msxcolors maps color numbers to their hexadecimal values.

The example is out of date. The current version of the colorscheme is using white as a color for a normal text.

Installation

Manual

Create ~/.vim/colors (~\vimfiles\colors on Windows) directory, if it does not exist. Copy there msx.vim file from this repository.

vim-plug

The vim-plug incantation to put in your vimrc file is Plug 'avysk/vim-msx-colors. Restart vim and run :PlugInstall.

Usage

:colo msx will do the colorscheme switch.

Recommendation

For more MSX-like experience find online MSX Screen 0.ttf font and use it (see below for one possible source).

You can also define shortcuts for F-keys and list them in statusline. See :h stl. If your window manager allows switching windows to fullscreen mode, using it for gvim makes things more authentic.

Limitations

• Only GUI vim is supported. The colorscheme will not work in a terminal (though it will probably work if termguicolors is turned on).
• Only colors from MSX-like palette (15 colors; color 0 was transparent) are used.
• Not even all 15 colors are used. Most commonly used are color 11 (light yellow), color 4 (dark blue for background), color 14 (grey) and color 15 (white for normal text background).
• If you have rainbow parentheses plugin, supporting ToggleRainbowOff command, then ToggleRainbowOn will be automatically executed when colorscheme is loaded.
• If you load colorscheme automatically and you still have problems with rainbow parentheses (for example, in vimscript files) try the following:

augroup MSXColors
  autocommand!
  autocommand BufEnter * ++once colo msx
augroup END

License

The license is MIT.

Acknowledgements

The palette colors are taken from this page.

I use the font from here.