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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

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First, using Vim 8’s spiffy plugin features:

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 ~/.vimrc, specifically:

let g:solarized_termcolors=256
colorscheme solarized

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

" 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:

cd ~/.config/mutt/
git clone https://github.com/altercation/mutt-colors-solarized
echo source `pwd`/mutt-colors-solarized/mutt-colors-solarized-dark-256.muttrc >> muttrc

Solarized is Cool

Solarized in Vim

Solarized in Mutt

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