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Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators

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Re: Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators

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Post by swaits »

moe wrote: post #9

I don't like this scheme and I don't buy the pseudo-science blurb. It's based on shades of blue. Our eyes are the least sensitive to blue. And what's up with the red and pink, is this some cruel joke? I'll stick with Zenburn[1]. [1] http://slinky.imukuppi.org/zenburn/

Umm, don't use it then?

Re: Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators

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Post by parbo »

daleharvey wrote: post #31
julian37 wrote: post #11

Someone started porting it to Emacs: https://github.com/sellout/solarized/tree/master/emacs-color...

the emacs port seems a bit too low contrast http://dropup.net/lz64u0ctpcge.png.html

Yes, that seems strange. Does emacs handle gamma differently?

Re: Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators

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Post by swaits »

Does this work in the console (vim)? I currently have desert256 working nicely in iTerm (xterm-256color). I'm away from my computer or I'd test it myself. Thanks! Never seen anyone put this much effort into a color scheme! I actually feel like I personally owe it to you to give this a shot.

Re: Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators

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Post by makeramen »

lamnk wrote: post #2

Please share your favorite color scheme(s) ! My favorite for gvim/MacVim is molokai: http://winterdom.com/2008/08/molokaiforvim , seconded by vividchalk when i'm on the terminal: https://github.com/tpope/vim-vividchalk Haven't found any good color scheme for iterm2 yet. Currently i'm using thayer: http://ecto-plazm.deviantart.com/gallery/

I've actually really grown accustomed to Visor's color theme and use it for all my terminal stuff (including vim). http://visor.binaryage.com/

IR_Black for Textmate though

Re: Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators

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Post by wladimir »

natesm wrote: post #3
lamnk wrote: post #2

Please share your favorite color scheme(s) ! My favorite for gvim/MacVim is molokai: http://winterdom.com/2008/08/molokaiforvim , seconded by vividchalk when i'm on the terminal: https://github.com/tpope/vim-vividchalk Haven't found any good color scheme for iterm2 yet. Currently i'm using thayer: http://ecto-plazm.deviantart.com/gallery/

My favorite theme is the "Oblivion" one for gedit, but I don't use gedit, so I remade it for TextMate and Xcode 3/4. http://natestedman.com/post/morrowind-for-textmate-xcode/ I am sitting on a mostly-done vim version right now as well, the GUI colors are all good, but I wiped out the terminal colors (I want them to just be the defaults). I'm not exactly a vim expert and I almost always use the terminal vim exclusivel…

Another vote for the Oblivion gedit theme. It's very nice.

This is supposed to be the version for Eclipse, but it seems that the colors are kind of different, which is a pity:

http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/?view=theme&id=1

Re: Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators

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Post by edambauskas »

lamnk wrote: post #2

Please share your favorite color scheme(s) ! My favorite for gvim/MacVim is molokai: http://winterdom.com/2008/08/molokaiforvim , seconded by vividchalk when i'm on the terminal: https://github.com/tpope/vim-vividchalk Haven't found any good color scheme for iterm2 yet. Currently i'm using thayer: http://ecto-plazm.deviantart.com/gallery/

I am using Vim on Windows via an app called Console2.

I am not sure how it handles terminal colors. So I just configured Console2 to use Solarized colors and then tried every colorscheme in Vim.

"morning" scheme worked best for me. It is so much easier to read my coworkers crammed code.

Re: Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators

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Post by Derbasti »

bmj wrote: post #39
moe wrote: post #9

I don't like this scheme and I don't buy the pseudo-science blurb. It's based on shades of blue. Our eyes are the least sensitive to blue. And what's up with the red and pink, is this some cruel joke? I'll stick with Zenburn[1]. [1] http://slinky.imukuppi.org/zenburn/

I was a dedicated IR_Black user (in both VIM and Visual Studio), and didn't think highly of this at first. But after about an hour, it's grown on me. If I can scrape together some time, I'll throw together a VS2010 color scheme/theme.

Please please do that! I for one would love to have this scheme in VS2010!

Re: Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators

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Post by edambauskas »

Adaptive wrote: post #26
daleharvey wrote: post #15

Its really rare to see that much thought going into the aesthetics of stereotypically "geeky" applications like vim and terminals, even the website looks entirely different from pretty much every website I have seen around these tools its a refreshing change, awesome work

Thanks very much. Looking back at my early hg repos on this project I refined it for about six months. As an aside. I have a nominal post in my head contrasting the development and refinement of a colorscheme like this vs the infamous 41 shades of blue. There is room for refinement and testing in design, but I think it has to be coupled with a clear design goals and opinions.

Thank you for the work!

It would be very interesting to learn about the methods you used to create this.

Are you planning to create a palette with more shades? Some time ago I needed lighter Tango tones and created this extended palette: http://emilis.info/other/extended_tango/

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