Turn of italics for String about vim-gruvbox8

[lifepillar]

Wouldn't it be nice if gruvbox8 just provided the gruvbox base theme but no overrides or extras for plugins etc.

It would be a good idea to provide a streamlined Gruvbox-like color scheme, but it would not be wise to apply drastic changes to Gruvbox8 at this point: in particular, removing support for plugins/filetypes would be disrupting for many users.

It is very easy, however, to customize Gruvbox8. Just install Colortemplate, edit _common and remove/comment out the following lines:

Include: _plugins
Include: _filetypes

Then, rebuild the color schemes.

A new, simplified, version of Gruvbox8 is something I am considering (Gruvbox9? For Vim 9?). Possibly, a holiday project…

[sQVe]

By the way, I'm happy to create a PR if you agree with that this behavior is intended or not.

[lifepillar]

I think I have inherited that part from the original Gruvbox. I have no strong opinion about it: I may change the option to affect only String.

[lifepillar]

Yes, that's how the original Gruvbox defined it. I don't know, I guess there was a reason why Special was included (a request by some users?), and I'd lean towards backward compatibility.

Adding this the below 👇 to my vimrc solves it

That is the way you are supposed to customize color schemes, after all. In retrospect, I should not have included any option in my fork.

I propose to leave things as they are and leave this issue open. If others come supporting your view, I will update the option.

[sQVe]

@lifepillar I still find this confusing but 🤷‍♂️. Works for me to override it manually.

This is actually something I gave a bit of thought yesterday. Wouldn't it be nice if gruvbox8 just provided the gruvbox base theme but no overrides or extras for plugins etc. Instead we create a cookbook where you easily can copy and paste highlight for plugins or overrides. This would also enable PRs for vim-airline themes etc without having to judge if it is bloat or not. My feeling is that this would inline perfectly with the speed is first class citizen approach of gruvbox8.

[sQVe]

Closing this as I got the answers I needed.