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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

#152

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

After investigating this (and raising the aforementioned Emacs bug), I've concluded that sRGB hex colors - as used by Ethan - are simply not the right hex colors to enter in Emacs in order to get the desired results. Instead, Emacs apparently works with Generic RGB values, and after some laborious conversion calculations in Apple's "ColorSync Utility", I got the right results:

https://github.com/purcell/color-theme-sanityinc-solarized

The color fix will probably get into sellout's repo, so interested parties should prefer that one over mine.

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

#153
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 tried a modified zenburn for a bit (i modify all my colour schemes so that the background is pure black), but went back to desert256 in the end. i just find it more pleasant to look at for hours at a time.

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

#154
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/

desert256

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

#155
post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Not mine, but....

http://studiostyl.es/schemes/solarized-dark

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

#156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

After investigating this (and raising the aforementioned Emacs bug), I've concluded that sRGB hex colors - as used by Ethan - are simply not the right hex colors to enter in Emacs in order to get the desired results. Instead, Emacs apparently works with Generic RGB values, and after some laborious conversion calculations in Apple's "ColorSync Utility", I got the right results: https://github.com/purcell/color-theme-s…

That's awesome! Thank you!

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

#160

When I use this in my .Xdefaults, my terminal emulator (urxvt) goes hot pink ( http://ompldr.org/vODRtMg/2011-04-05-165103_1024x600_scrot.p... ), any ideas?

mine goes all blue, it's awful and I haven't found anyone with this problem. Looks great in vim but it's unusable for urxvt/xterm (and also emacs).

edit: http://imgur.com/OMjdR

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