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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

#102

I don't mean to sound particularly thick here, but is there a way to apply these colours to my OSX Terminal too? I've installed the bundle for Terminal.app, and they look lovely in emacs, but can I use them in my general bash environment, too?

Yes, the directions are on GitHub:

https://github.com/altercation/solarized/tree/master/osx-ter...

Once you've activated that theme in Terminal.app's preferences, all your colors in the shell will use the colors defined in the colorscheme. So red will be the red in the colorscheme, blue -> blue, etc.

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

#104
post #88

I haven't looked into how one can export gnome-terminal color palettes yet, but if anyone else is interested, I think these are the correct settings in gconf: /apps/gnome-terminal/palette: #070736364242:#D3D336368282:#B5B589890000:#CBCB4B4B1616:#2A2AA1A19898:#6C6C7171C4C4:#858599990000:#EEEEE8E8D5D5:#00002B2B3636:#D3D301010202:#58586E6E7575:#65657B7B8383:#838394949696:#26268B8BD2D2:#9393A1A1A1A1:#FDFDF6F6E3E3 /apps/g…

You can edit the custom palette (it gets saved in .gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/XXXX/%gconf.xml).

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

#105
post #104
post #88

I haven't looked into how one can export gnome-terminal color palettes yet, but if anyone else is interested, I think these are the correct settings in gconf: /apps/gnome-terminal/palette: #070736364242:#D3D336368282:#B5B589890000:#CBCB4B4B1616:#2A2AA1A19898:#6C6C7171C4C4:#858599990000:#EEEEE8E8D5D5:#00002B2B3636:#D3D301010202:#58586E6E7575:#65657B7B8383:#838394949696:#26268B8BD2D2:#9393A1A1A1A1:#FDFDF6F6E3E3 /apps/g…

You can edit the custom palette (it gets saved in .gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/XXXX/%gconf.xml).

agreed, but there is no mechanism for importing/exporting additional color schemes (I guess you could export an entire profile, but that entails quite a bit more than just color schemes).

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

#107
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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/

is there a reason why most of these color schemes (including solarized), have a very low contrast for comments - making them difficult to read. I personally use the desert colorcheme ( http://hans.fugal.net/vim/colors/desert.html )

Yeah, I'm a huge fan of desert.

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

#109

Am I the only coder who doesn't like working with light text on a dark background? I have 20/20 vision, and I find it really uncomfortable to use these.

My theory is that it depends on when/where you normally work. If you have a tendency to code at night or in dark rooms, dark on light is very bright. At least, that's why I go light on dark.
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