macVim Dracula colorscheme not similar to Sublime Dracula Theme

Question

On macOS Catalina (10.15.4) have the following editors installed:

macVim (8.2.539)
Sublime 3 (3.2.2 - build 3211)

Have the Dracula color theme installed in both (a big shout out on whoever originally created this colorscheme / theme - it rocks!).

The issue is that they both do not look very similar (the one on macVim has terrible colors for its Java package imports & comments syntax).

See how awful the colors are for package imports and comments?

Sublime 3's Dracula theme rocks:

Can someone assist me into editing the particular colors inside .vimrc/autoload/dracula.vim so it could match the color's of Sublime 3's Dracula theme?

If not, where can I edit (what file & entries) to manually try different colors myself for Java related package imports and comments, myself?

Is there a way I can make macVim's Dracula theme identical (in terms of colors) as Sublime 3's?

The color codes for Dracula Sublime are listed here:

https://github.com/dracula/sublime/blob/b7e8961afa4c11d620ad26abe28d76929c7ff90b/Dracula.tmTheme

Tried editing .vimrc/autoload/dracula.vim and nothing changed. :(

More details: tried loading / installing Dracula via Vim-Plug but nothing happened so I manually inserted the files from Dracula Vim's Github into (this is the only way it worked):

~.vimrc/autoload/dracula.vim
~.vimrc/colors/dracula.vim

.vimrc:

set nu
set ruler
" set rulerformat=%l\:%c  
set autoindent
syntax on
set showmatch " Shows matching brackets
set nocompatible 
set t_Co=256
set tabstop=4
set laststatus=2
set encoding=utf-8     
set smarttab " Autotabs for certain code
set shiftwidth=4

if has("gui_running")
  if has("gui_gtk2")
    set guifont=Inconsolata\ 12
  elseif has("gui_macvim")
    set guifont=JetBrains\ Mono\ Regular:h14
  elseif has("gui_win32")
    set guifont=Consolas:h11:cANSI
  endif
endif

" colorscheme pencil
colorscheme dracula

set background=light
let g:airline_theme = 'pencil'

call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
Plug 'itchyny/lightline.vim'
Plug 'preservim/nerdtree'
Plug 'dracula/vim', { 'as': 'dracula' }
call plug#end()

map <C-t> :NERDTreeToggle<CR>

.gvimrc

set nu
set ruler
set rulerformat=%l\:%c  
set autoindent
syntax on
set nocompatible 
set t_Co=256
set tabstop=4
set laststatus=2
set encoding=utf-8     

if has("gui_running")
  if has("gui_gtk2")
    set guifont=Inconsolata\ 12
  elseif has("gui_macvim")
    set guifont=JetBrains\ Mono\ Regular:h14
  elseif has("gui_win32")
    set guifont=Consolas:h11:cANSI
  endif
endif

" colorscheme pencil
colorscheme dracula

set background=light
let g:airline_theme = 'pencil'

call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
Plug 'itchyny/lightline.vim'
Plug 'preservim/nerdtree'
Plug 'dracula/vim', { 'as': 'dracula' }
call plug#end()

map <C-t> :NERDTreeToggle<CR>

~/.vimrc's top level folder structure:

~/.vim$ ls
autoload    colors      plugged

Inside the ~/.vim/plugged dir:

├── dracula
│   ├── INSTALL.md
│   ├── LICENSE
│   ├── README.md
│   ├── after
│   │   ├── plugin
│   │   │   └── dracula.vim
│   │   └── syntax
│   │       ├── css.vim
│   │       ├── gitcommit.vim
│   │       ├── html.vim
│   │       ├── javascript.vim
│   │       ├── json.vim
│   │       ├── markdown.vim
│   │       ├── ocaml.vim
│   │       ├── perl.vim
│   │       ├── php.vim
│   │       ├── plantuml.vim
│   │       ├── python.vim
│   │       ├── ruby.vim
│   │       ├── rust.vim
│   │       ├── sass.vim
│   │       ├── sh.vim
│   │       ├── tex.vim
│   │       ├── typescript.vim
│   │       ├── typescriptreact.vim
│   │       ├── vim.vim
│   │       ├── xml.vim
│   │       └── yaml.vim
│   ├── autoload
│   │   ├── airline
│   │   │   └── themes
│   │   │       └── dracula.vim
│   │   ├── dracula.vim
│   │   └── lightline
│   │       └── colorscheme
│   │           └── dracula.vim
│   ├── colors
│   │   └── dracula.vim
│   ├── doc
│   │   ├── dracula.txt
│   │   └── tags
│   └── screenshot.png

idk if this a vim-plug issue or not, but I suspect you're missing the after/syntax and other files in the repo. Also, it is generally true that you can't use the plugins until after plug#end... — D. Ben Knoble
@D.BenKnoble - I do have the after/syntax folders inside ~/.vim/plugged/dracula, see my edited post above. Its just that I had to manually insert these two specific files, dracula.vim, from Dracula Vim Github repository, into their respective places ~/.vim/autoload & ~/.vim/colors. Makes me think its a vim-plug issue. — PacificNW_Lover

PacificNW_Lover PacificNW_Lover · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-30T17:48:49

Got it working by placing the colorscheme after the call plug# section in .vimrc and .gvimrc:

set nu
set ruler
" set rulerformat=%l\:%c  
set autoindent
syntax on
set showmatch " Shows matching brackets
set nocompatible 
set t_Co=256
set tabstop=4
set laststatus=2
set encoding=utf-8     
set smarttab " Autotabs for certain code
set shiftwidth=4

if has("gui_running")
  if has("gui_gtk2")
    set guifont=Inconsolata\ 12
  elseif has("gui_macvim")
    set guifont=JetBrains\ Mono\ Regular:h14
  elseif has("gui_win32")
    set guifont=Consolas:h11:cANSI
  endif
endif

set background=light
let g:airline_theme = 'pencil'

call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
Plug 'itchyny/lightline.vim'
Plug 'preservim/nerdtree'
Plug 'dracula/vim', { 'as': 'dracula' }
call plug#end()

" colorscheme pencil
colorscheme dracula

map <C-t> :NERDTreeToggle<CR>

Just a note though, if you use vim-plug, you still have to manually put the specific dracula.vim files inside autoload and colors directory manually. Per Dracula for Vim's Github page, those instructions are not correct.

macVim Dracula colorscheme not similar to Sublime Dracula Theme

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