It is possible to make a color-scheme for vim which is restrained and beautiful, using the common colorcodes, green for "not-dangerous comment", blue for keywords (which are "royal" in the sense that they go before anything else), etc.
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Vim on Xterm-color and stand-alone gvim on Linux-2.x + X11 has the possibility of syntax highlighting. 10+ years ago my students worked with Microsoft Visual Studio which has a restrained effective syntax-color scheme.
I wondered why there isn't an option for "simple, notscreaming" colors, and Bram told me to put one such here on Wikia. I did, but I don't know where it is now!
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Earlier I uploaded a syncolor.vim with the aforementioned color-scheme. I need to put a link here.