What is molokai?

Molokai is a color scheme for Vim, a text editor widely used by programmers. Color schemes control the colors assigned to different parts of code: keywords, strings, comments, and other elements each get a distinct color, which makes the text easier to read at a glance. Molokai is a port of a theme called Monokai, originally created for TextMate, a different code editor. This project adapts that same design to work inside Vim, keeping a similar look and feel to what TextMate users were already familiar with. The default appearance uses a dark gray background. This specific background is based on a variation of the original monokai design adapted for the E editor by Hamish Stuart Macpherson. If you prefer the background to match the original TextMate monokai color instead, you can switch it with one line added to your Vim configuration file. The scheme works in both graphical Vim windows and 256-color terminal environments, though there are some visual differences between the two. Terminal support is currently limited to the dark gray background style. There is also an alternative 256-color mode under development that tries to bring the terminal version closer in appearance to the graphical version, which can be enabled with a separate configuration option. Installation requires copying one file into the colors folder inside your Vim configuration directory. No package manager or build step is needed. The README for this project is short and covers only the core installation and the two optional configuration flags described above.