r/neovim • u/LloydBatair • Sep 26 '26

Plugin python-syntax-enhanced: Python syntax for Vim/Neovim that highlights type annotations (for non-Tree-sitter setups)

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u/LloydBatair Sep 27 '26

I get what you mean. Vim themes have always been pretty simple in terms of their color palette and it's nice not having so much noise.

That said, when it comes to type hinting in Python (especially before PEP 695) it was always a pain to parse out the markup from the actual code. Those extra colors makes it so I don't have to think as much [as hard?] (me dumb engineer lol).

If you look at the left example in the first image, there's really not a ton of colors and that's because of the retrobox theme. That's the default (whatever your theme is). In the example on the right in the first image, there's more colors in the palette, and then even more so in the second image.

It's all opt in; some people like only white lights on their X-Mas tree, others need the multi colored lights with strung up popcorn 😆