Hi and thanks for this wonderful project!
I tried to explore the different variants by setting colorscheme to solarized8/solarized8_flat/etc, but I don't see differences when I open it side by side in tmux.
So, what are the differences and what am I missing?

Thanks!

Hi @lifepillar ,

This issue has been there for the gnome-terminal in the original solarized as well: altercation/vim-colors-solarized#167

The problem is that when we search something (with set hlsearch), the cursor color on the searched term is same as the background color, because of which the cursor becomes invisible. Same thing happens on the first entry in a quickfix window.

p.s. This does not happen in iTerm2 when smartcursor is set.

Any solutions?

When using solarized8_flat in Neovim, while in normal mode, the current line is drawn with ligatures. The behaviour persists in insert mode but disappears in visual mode.

I'm using iTerm2 3.2.6, my font is Fira code. In iTerm2 Preferences -> Profile -> Text I have use ligatures unchecked. Neovim 0.3.1 on OS X 10.13.

syntax/ft does not effect the behaviour.

I can't see any mention of ligatures in solarized8's code. I can't imagine it being a vim setting since font rendering is a bit out of scope.

I'm assuming this probably isn't actually a bug here but maybe in ... iTerm2? This is the only theme I've seen the behaviour in though, and only in the flat variant.

So I guess... Is it intended?

solarized8_flat

solarized8

Update recently toneovim 0.2.1 and now only 256 colors are loading.

Running with following setup:

• neovim 0.2.1 homebrew install
• iterm2 3.1.5
• OS X 10.12.6
• zsh

Hello,

Great color scheme. I'm using the flat version now.

Just curious if there is any good way to highlight the function/method names in javascript with a colour.

The first screenshot is with the ES2015 syntax.

Any tips on how to do this?

Thanks!

I use the xterm of Xshell in Windows to connect Ubuntu which is runing in a virtual machine.

I add export TERM=xterm-256color to ~/.bashrc, and add

if has("gui_runing") 
       set background=light
 else         
       set t_Co=256                                            
       set background=dark          
endif        
         
set background=dark          
syntax enable 
colorscheme solarized8

to ~/.vimrc. it shows the following:

but is not what I want ? what should I do to get correct colors? Thanks !

iterm2: 3.1.5
neovim: 0.2.0

If I run scripts/solarized8.sh then the colors become correct for that tab. But, given that iterm2 has truecolor enabled by default, based on the README documentation it seems my configuration should work without needing to adjust the colors.

Relevant section of .vimrc:

set termguicolors
set background=dark
colorscheme solarized8_flat

In the readme it says that there's an "bold" option for the g:solarized_diffmode. I can't find that in any of the colorschemes. Is readme outdated or there's missing code?

Hi there.
Thanks for developing! I think it's the best solarized colorcheme for Vim.
But I didn't open a new issue just for say thank you.
Actually I read ReadMe.md file and you said:

Set your terminal's 16 ANSI colors (the colors in the range 0–15) to the Solarized palette. Most terminals allow you to do that: see the manual of your terminal to learn how. Then, put this line in your vimrc before loading the colorscheme

but I confused about ANSI colors and my question is why (& when) I should use
let g:solarized_use16 = 1 in my vimrc?
NOTE that I set tgc option in my vimrc.

The background color not changed for the selected lines. for example:

all lines were selected, but the background is strange.
os: ubuntu 18.04
terminal: mobaxterm 11.0
vim:8.0.1453
vimrc: see the example picture

Same as #45 , but for neovim terminal :)

I've recently switched to using solarized8_light instead of solarized and have noticed a bit of an issue with how vimdiff looks. The highlighted areas are grey in the terminal (set termguicolors does not have this issue). It's most likely due to the fact that solarized terminal theme uses bold colours as shades of grey instead of brighter colours.

Using urxvt +is fixes the problem, but vte-based terminals (which are more common) behave exactly that way. I understand that the default behaviour in the GUI involves bold and italic fonts in diff mode, but I think keeping colours is more important in this case.

Also, solarized_diffmode = 'low' is not a solution since it also disables the background highlight on areas that are different.

The color for non-selected items in the drop-down needs to be more readable.

I recently updated to v1.0.1 and now I'm always getting the light background.

I'm running with following setup:

• neovim 0.2.0
• iTerm2 3.1.5
• OS X 10.12.6
• zsh

And the relevant part of my vimrc looks like this:

set termguicolors
set background=dark
colorscheme solarized8

Hello,

Congratulations for your work. I try to migrate official Solarized to your Solarized8 but I encounter a problem with comments with tmux (tc enabled) :

$ tmux info | grep Tc    
 197: Tc: (flag) true

All colors are printed correctly inside tmux.

Without tmux comments are printed correctly :

Inside tmux comment are not printed correctly :

Do you know how to correct this problem ?

I see there's no highlighting for php docblock https://phpdoc.org/docs/latest/guides/docblocks.html. Any plan to support it?

Thanks.

Hello, I have successfully used this theme in MacVim, but upon switching to NeoVim, while the light theme loads automatically, I have to :source ~/.vimrc every time, when I do it switches to dark mode with no issue. Hoping it would help I already added:
let &t_8f = "<Esc>[38;2;%lu;%lu;%lum"
let &t_8b = "<Esc>[48;2;%lu;%lu;%lum"
But it did not make a difference. I'm stumped. Ideas?

I've tried using other theme and dark mode seems to load fine. Though I have not experimented with many.

Hi,

First of all, thank you very much for solarized8!

I use vim-signify and apparently the background color is incorrect:

In order to get tmux and iterm 2.2 working together with italics xterm-256color-italic has been adopted to indicate a terminal with color and italics. Is there a way to support this in solarized8?

Or give a flag to force 256 color on a terminal that solarized8 doesn't recognize as having 256 color?

Hello, how to make the background color of the relative number columns as the same as the background color of text area.

As you can see here, there are two background colors.

When I open a file in vim I see text is kind of "reverse highlighting" effect. See in image below, lines 1 - 25.

This changes when I use the mouse to click and drag highlight, then click to undo the highlight selection, on some affected lines, as I have done with lines 27 - 34

Vim version 8.0.
Ubuntu 18.04 on WSL

At least in solarized-light this behaviour is really confusing.

Instead of:

hi! MatchParen cterm=NONE,bold gui=NONE,bold ctermfg=15 guifg=#fdf6e3 ctermbg=12 guibg=#839496

Switching the fg and bg looks much better:

hi! MatchParen cterm=NONE,bold gui=NONE,bold ctermbg=15 guibg=#fdf6e3 ctermfg=12 guifg=#839496

It highlights the other bracket without making it look like the cursor has jumped.

on the left is vim directly after startup, and on the right is having run colo solarized8 again. g:solarized_use16 is set to 1. i've tried autocmd VimEnter colorscheme solarized8 but it produces the same results.

How to install this plugin using NeoBundle?

This issue only applies to NeoVim's terminal emulator buffers.

When in terminal mode, the terminal cursor is easily visible, which is good. But on exiting terminal mode, the terminal cursor disappears, which makes it difficult to tell where the terminal cursor will be when terminal mode resumes.

This could be addressed by defining colors for the TermCursorNC group.

colorscheme solarized8_dark_flat
head commit: 9b74a5f
Current terminal

Expected behaviour

Additional info

~/Documents/projects/ekstep-devops(DO-163 ✗) nvim --version                                                       
NVIM v0.3.1
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.0.5
Compilation: /usr/bin/cc -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -fno-plt -Wconversion -O2 -DNDEBUG -DMIN_LOG_LEVEL=3 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstrict-prototypes -std=gnu99 -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wvla -fstack-protector-strong -fdiagnostics-color=auto -Wno-array-bounds -DINCLUDE_GENERATED_DECLARATIONS -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNVIM_MSGPACK_HAS_FLOAT32 -DNVIM_UNIBI_HAS_VAR_FROM -I/build/neovim/src/build/config -I/build/neovim/src/neovim-0.3.1/src -I/usr/include -I/build/neovim/src/build/src/nvim/auto -I/build/neovim/src/build/include
Compiled by builduser

Features: +acl +iconv +jemalloc +tui 
See ":help feature-compile"

   system vimrc file: "$VIM/sysinit.vim"
  fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/nvim"

Run :checkhealth for more info

I wonder how this can be installed with NeoVim? Can you advise?

I'm using MacVim (GUI mode, version 8.1) with background=light. The colors in :terminal seems wrong.

Here's the output of colortest script inside :terminal (which is incorrect):

The correct output should be (taken from terminal outside vim):

let g:terminal_ansi_colors = ['#eee8d5', '#dc322f', '#859900', '#b58900', '#268bd2', '#d33682', '#2aa198', '#073642',
      \ '#fdf6e3', '#cb4b16', '#93a1a1', '#839496', '#657b83', '#6c71c4', '#586e75', '#002b36']

should be changed to

let g:terminal_ansi_colors = ['#073642', '#dc322f', '#859900', '#b58900', '#268bd2', '#d33682', '#2aa198', '#eee8d5',
      \ '#002b36', '#cb4b16', '#93a1a1', '#839496', '#657b83', '#6c71c4', '#586e75', '#fdf6e3']

Feel free to reject this. I used solarized for ages before switching to this and the few changes I've noticed (especially the matchparen change) are improvements, except that in the original solarized the block cursor was always white, and here it is simply an inverted block. Was that on purpose? I find it distracting.

Hi @lifepillar,

The colors are rendered nicely outside tmux, but here's how it looks inside tmux:

Running on a 24-bit capable terminal emulator; latest version of tmux, with the following settings:

set -g default-terminal "xterm-256color"
set -ga terminal-overrides ",xterm-256color:Tc"

Any idea what the problem might be? Thanks.

I am using a terminal that only support 256 colors (gnome-terminal2). I use vim and solarized and it worked well. But when I use them inside tmux, the color are not correct.

Here is the color without tmux

Here is the color with tmux

So I added the following in my vim configurations

let &t_8f = "\<Esc>[38;2;%lu;%lu;%lum"                                                                                                                                                      
let &t_8b = "\<Esc>[48;2;%lu;%lu;%lum"                                                                                                                                                      
set t_Co=256                                                                                                                                                                                 
let g:solarized_use16 = 1                                                                                                                                                                   
set background=dark                                                                                                                                                                          
colorscheme solarized8     

Now it looks like

The main complaint I have now is the background color, which is too light and not the same like the case without tmux. The comments are all bold, which is also weird

I think the special characters I put in "&t_8f" can translate the colors from tmux to terminal, but this is for true color. For 16-bit color, is there an alternative for this?

.vimrc

let g:solarized_use16 = 0
let g:solarized_termcolors=256
colorscheme solarized8

[Solarized 8] There are not enough colors.

How can I change it? I want tag colors same as 'altercation/vim-colors-solarized'.

Example with spelling

On Vim 8.603 with the light scheme, since the latest commits, there appears at the start of Vim the error message

Error detected while processing function <SNR>251_set_highlight_colors[37]..<SNR>251_add_to_highlight_group:
line    1:
E417: missing argument: ctermbg=
Error detected while processing function <SNR>251_set_highlight_colors[38]..<SNR>251_add_to_highlight_group:
line    1:
E417: missing argument: ctermbg=
Press ENTER or type command to continue

probably introduced by

a22a0c6

Using Nvim 0.2 and hterm:

The top half is selected in visual mode; the background doesn't change at all, only the foreground changes to be uniform. On certain files with very little syntax highlighting, this is very hard to see. Is this indented?

I'm using iTerm2 3.0.10 on macOS which connects via SSH to an Ubuntu 14.04 VM running Neovim 0.1.6-dev and Tmux 2.0.

I have the following vim config:

packadd vim-solarized8
colorscheme solarized8_dark
set t_8f=^[[38;2;%lu;%lu;%lum
set t_8b=^[[48;2;%lu;%lu;%lum
set termguicolors

(the ^[ are actual escape sequences)

This works pretty well without Tmux, like this:

But as soon as I start nvim inside Tmux, it looks FUCKED. Like this:

My TERM is xterm-256color outside of tmux, and screen-256color inside.

I've tried pretty much "everything" but no success. Any ideas why?

Here's what I see when I run git diff vimrc in iTerm using Solarized Light colorscheme:

And here's what I see when I run git diff vimrc in a NeoVim terminal, using solarized8_light as my colorscheme:

This comment shows how you can set the color palette for NeoVim's terminal emulator. I've adapted @tarruda's suggestion here to use the color palette from Solarized8:

let g:terminal_color_0 = '#073642'
let g:terminal_color_1 = '#dc322f'
let g:terminal_color_2 = '#719e07'
let g:terminal_color_3 = '#b58900'
let g:terminal_color_4 = '#268bd2'
let g:terminal_color_5 = '#d33682'
let g:terminal_color_6 = '#2aa198'
let g:terminal_color_7 = '#eee8d5'
let g:terminal_color_8 = '#002b36'
let g:terminal_color_9 = '#cb4b16'
let g:terminal_color_10= '#586e75'
let g:terminal_color_11= '#657b83'
let g:terminal_color_12= '#839496'
let g:terminal_color_13= '#6c71c4'
let g:terminal_color_14= '#93a1a1'
let g:terminal_color_15= '#fdf6e3'

The check

!(has('termguicolors') && &termguicolors)

produces with Vim 8.603 with notermguicolors set the error cmessage

colors/solarized8_dark.vim:
line   11:
[Solarized8 Dark] There are not enough colors.

However, before, when the check is disabled (as used to be the case in 2e4943c) the colors show up just fine.

Under URxvt, what settings must be used for the coloring with termguicolors set to show up fine?

dc6c1df has broken the way MatchParen is highlighted when set cursorline is configured and bold fonts are disabled. I agree that disabling bold fonts in the terminal is my own problem, but bold in my opinion is still not enough to distinguish the matching parentheses. (Not really sure if I can provide an alternative solution, but in my opinion, the way it worked before was perfect.)

Here's an example (the first line):

I just updated using https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug and now my comments have a light gray background (vimrc, python files). Is this intended? The screenshots in the README don't have it, and in the past that wasn't the case.

My settings:

let &t_8f = "\<Esc>[38;2;%lu;%lu;%lum"
let &t_8b = "\<Esc>[48;2;%lu;%lu;%lum"
colorscheme solarized8
set termguicolors

$ vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled Jul 24 2017 13:14:56)
MacOS X (unix) version
Included patches: 1-740
Compiled by Homebrew

I am using iTerm2:

Please let me know if I can provide any more helpful information! Thank you for the great plugin!

.vimrc:

Plug 'lifepillar/vim-solarized8'
colorscheme solarized8_dark

As a result, this result:

Why?

Have seen this problem since the ancient solarized.
When setting background to dark, in Python files there is always the same color for scripts and comment lines starting with #. This seems to be ubiquitous in Mac/Ubuntu terminals.

My .vimrc:

set tabstop=4       " The width of a TAB is set to 4.
set shiftwidth=4    " Indents will have a width of 4
set softtabstop=4   " Sets the number of columns for a TAB
set expandtab       " Expand TABs to spaces
set hlsearch

execute pathogen#infect()

" automatic indentation
filetype indent plugin on

" let g:solarized_termcolors=256
" This block is for colors-polarized
syntax enable
set background=dark
colorscheme solarized8_high

let &t_8f = "\<Esc>[38;2;%lu;%lu;%lum"
let &t_8b = "\<Esc>[48;2;%lu;%lu;%lum"

Did I miss something?

Hi,

I would like to append one highlight link for javascript that https://github.com/pangloss/vim-javascript is adding.
The group is jsFuncCall.

Currently i have this:

But after linking jsFuncCall to Function (hi link jsFuncCall Function) it looks bit more readable:

Do you allow adding language specific highlights, or every user has to do it by themselves?

I guess we could put this into the extra_hi_groups part.

The cursor of the light version of the theme does not provide enough contrast between the background and the foreground (black on blue):

hi! Cursor cterm=NONE gui=NONE ctermfg=8 guifg=#002b36 ctermbg=4 guibg=#268bd2

I, personally, prefer these colors (red just works better):

hi! Cursor cterm=NONE gui=NONE ctermfg=15 guifg=#fdf6e3 ctermbg=1 guibg=#dc322f

But setting the foreground to white would be enough to make the cursor less tiring:

hi! Cursor cterm=NONE gui=NONE ctermfg=15 guifg=#fdf6e3 ctermbg=4 guibg=#268bd2

Hi.
At the first step I should thank you for this good theme.
Actually my question is: Is this vim-colorscheme associate with this colorscheme (forked from it, inspired idea from it, relation with colors and values, etc.)? & Which one is really better?
Good luck.