If you are using a terminal emulator that supports 256 colors and don’t want to use the custom Solarized terminal colors, you will need to use the degraded 256 colorscheme. If you do use the custom terminal colors, solarized.vim should work out of the box for you. If you use Solarized without these colors, Solarized will need to be told to degrade its colorscheme to a set compatible with the limited 256 terminal palette (whereas by using the terminal’s 16 ansi color values, you can set the correct, specific values for the Solarized palette).
Macvim background color install#
To install a color scheme, first, create a directory: mkdir /.vim/colors Then, go here for a list of color schemes. It has been downloaded 292 times and provides support for a lot of common editors.
Light background could put a strain on my eyes after staring at screen more than one hour. The MacVim theme is a color scheme for eclipse created by Ivan Zezyulya. I found dark background is easier for my eyes. I’ve included palettes for some popular terminal emulator as well as Xdefaults in the official Solarized download available from Solarized homepage. The default MacVim color scheme isnt that appealing. not in a GUI version like gvim or macvim), please please please consider setting your terminal emulator’s colorscheme to use the Solarized palette. If you are going to use Solarized in Terminal mode (i.e.