Solarized 8 Flat Dark | Solarized 8 Flat Light |
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Note: if you are using Neovim, checkout the neovim
branch of this repo.
This is yet another Solarized theme for Vim. It places itself half way between the original Solarized and the Flattened variant. It removes only some of the bullshit. The color palette is exactly the same as in Solarized, although some highlight groups are defined slightly differently (for instance, I have tried to avoid red on blue).
The main reason for the existence of this project is that the original Solarized
theme does not define guifg
and guibg
in terminal Vim, making it unsuitable
for versions of Vim supporting true-color (i.e., 24-bit color) terminals.
Instead, this color scheme works out of the box everywhere. For the best
experience, you need:
termguicolors
set, andSolarized 8 also works in any GUI version of Vim: no configuration is necessary.* See below for installation instructions.
* VimR users must set
termguicolors
before loading the color scheme.
For terminals not supporting true colors, Solarized 8 will fall back to use an approximate palette based on xterm's 256 colors, which looks more or less like this:
Dark 256 color palette | Light 256 color palette |
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(Yeah, it looks like a different color scheme: Solarized palette is far away from xterm colors!)
If you do not like this approximation, to get exact colors with such terminals you have two possibilities:
Modify some of your terminal colors in the range 16–255 to match Solarized
palette. For this purpose, you may run (not source!)
scripts/solarized8.sh
; no setting is needed in Vim. For instance, if you
are using Bash, put this in .bashrc
:
sh /path/to/scripts/solarized.sh
Note: this method is supported only by some terminals. For
instance, in Apple's Terminal.app, running solarized.sh
has no effect.
Set your terminal's 16 ANSI colors (the colors in the range 0–15) to the
Solarized palette (how to do that depends on the terminal) and set t_Co=16
in Vim to instruct Vim to use your terminal's colors. Be aware
that, if you force the use of your terminal colors in Vim with any of these
settings, but your terminal is not configured to use the Solarized palette,
your colors will be completely off!
Note: whatever method you choose, keep in mind that if your terminal does
not support millions of colors, you must not set termguicolors
(i.e., make
sure that set termguicolors?
outputs notermguicolors
).
In the past, Solarized 8 used to complain when your terminal did not support enough colors. But the current version will gracefully degrade to a (beautiful!) black&white color scheme:
Solarized 8 B&W variant | Solarized 8 B&W variant |
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If your Vim supports packages (echo has('packages')
prints 1
), I strongly
recommend that you use them. Just clone this repo inside pack/*/opt
, e.g.:
git clone https://github.com/lifepillar/vim-solarized8.git \
~/.vim/pack/themes/opt/solarized8
Otherwise, use you favourite installation method.
There are actually four optimized* color schemes you may load:
solarized8_high
: high-contrast variant (screenshot below, first column);solarized8
: the default Solarized theme (screenshot below, second column);solarized8_low
: low-contrast variant (screenshot below, third column);solarized8_flat
: “flat” variant (screenshot below, fourth column).The “flat” variant does not exist in the original Solarized. It differs from
solarized8
mainly in how the status line, split bars and tab bar look like:
To use a Solarized 8 color scheme, set the background (dark
or light
) then
load the variant you want, e.g.:
set background=dark
colorscheme solarized8
If you opt to use some Vim plugin manager instead, the following should be
added to your vimrc
, rather than the above, for the color scheme to be loaded
correctly:
set background=dark
autocmd vimenter * ++nested colorscheme solarized8
To switch the background from dark to light or vice versa, just set background
accordingly.
If you use Vim packages, there is no need to packadd solarized8
. Keep your
runtimepath
clean!
* Below is the result of a benchmark I have made using Vim 8.1.1450
and iTerm 2 v3.2.6 on a MacBook Pro Early 2015 with macOS 10.14.5. To make the
comparison meaningful, g:solarized_extra_hi_groups
was set to 1
: Solarized
8 should load a bit faster if you do not enable additional syntax items. Note
that Solarized 8 is optimized for what are believed to be the most common use
cases, i.e., GUI, true-color terminals and 256-color terminals.
The following options are inherited from Solarized, although their effects may be slightly different from those in the original Solarized:
g:solarized_visibility
: one of "normal"
(default), "low"
, "high"
:
controls CursorLineNr
, LineNr
, NonText
, SpecialKey
, Title
, and all
the Spell*
highlight groups; in light mode, it may also slightly change the
color for Cursor
and MatchParen
;g:solarized_diffmode
: one of "normal"
(default), "low"
, "high"
:
controls the style of DiffAdd
, DiffChange
, DiffDelete
, and DiffText
.g:solarized_termtrans
: make the background transparent if set to 1
(default: 0
). This has effect only if Vim is run from the terminal.The following options were not available in the original Solarized:
g:solarized_statusline
: one of "normal"
(default), "low"
or "flat"
.
This affects the “structural” elements of your editor: StatusLine
,
StatusLineNC
, TabLine
, TablineFill
, TabLineSel
, and VertSplit
.g:solarized_italics
: set to 0
to suppress italics (default is 1
). Note
that in the terminal whether italics is actually used depends also on the
font and the terminal environment: setting this option to 1
is not
guaranteed to work.g:solarized_old_cursor_style
: set to 1
if you want to use the original
Solarized's cursor style (default: 0
). By default, the cursor is orange or
red in light themes (depending on g:solarized_visibility
), and blue in dark
themes. Please note that your terminal may override the cursor's color, so
this option is not guaranteed to change the cursor's color.g:solarized_extra_hi_groups
: set to 1
to enable Solarized
filetype-specific syntax highlighting groups (default is 0
). Please be
aware that if your Vim is very old you may encounter an
issue with syntax items defined in
color schemes.All these options may be used with any Solarized 8 variant.
Hey, I do not get the right colors when running Vim inside tmux or in my favourite true-color enabled terminal!
Try putting this in your .vimrc
:
let &t_8f = "\<Esc>[38;2;%lu;%lu;%lum"
let &t_8b = "\<Esc>[48;2;%lu;%lu;%lum"
See :h xterm-true-color
for the details.
It may also be necessary to add the following to your tmux.conf
:
# Add truecolor support
set-option -ga terminal-overrides ",xterm-256color:Tc"
# Default terminal is 256 colors
set -g default-terminal "tmux-256color"
See also these threads:
Do you want to hack the theme? Install
Colortemplate, edit the
templates/*.colortemplate
files, then rebuild the color schemes.
If you extend or improve Solarized 8, please consider submitting a pull request!