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Solarized is Cool

I was investigating why there aren't colors in the pagers as used by Mutt when I stumbled over the Solarized color schemes for stuff. I had seen these in the past, but ignored them because I was trying to stick to mostly built-in Vim features. Now that I'm slurping up all kinds of addons for Vim, I revisited the topic.

Solarized in Vim


First, using Vim 8's spiffy plugin features:

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mkdir -p ~/.vim/pack/solarized/start/
cd ~/.vim/pack/solarized/start/
git clone https://github.com/altercation/vim-colors-solarized

They look really nice, provided some things are set in my T383838~/.vimrc, specifically:

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let g:solarized_termcolors=256
colorscheme solarized

Depending on the setup, it may be necessary to set it to dark, too...

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" Some colorsets are better about contrast if they know the terminal is dark.
set background=dark

Solarized in Mutt

The Solarized color scheme for Mutt looks even nicer, but you'll have to take my word for it as I'm unable to safely post a screenshot of that.

But here's how I set that up:

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Te6edf3cd Tff7b72~/Tb4b4b4.Te6edf3configTff7b72/Te6edf3muttTff7b72/
Te6edf3git Tff7b72clone Te6edf3httpsTff7b72://Te6edf3githubTb4b4b4.Te6edf3comTff7b72/Te6edf3altercationTff7b72/Te6edf3muttTff7b72-Te6edf3colorsTff7b72-Te6edf3solarized
Te6edf3echo Tff7b72source Te6edf3`Te6edf3pwdTe6edf3`Tff7b72/Te6edf3muttTff7b72-Te6edf3colorsTff7b72-Te6edf3solarizedTff7b72/Te6edf3muttTff7b72-Te6edf3colorsTff7b72-Te6edf3solarizedTff7b72-Te6edf3darkTff7b72-T79c0ff256.Te6edf3muttrc Tff7b72>> Te6edf3muttrc


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