Getting Vim Solarized to work on iTerm

Question

I've been using the solarized dark theme for a while now on iTerm, and it never quite looked like the original one. I decided to try and sort it out, and found all sorts of answers here and other sites:

• Using the same theme for iTerm itself.
• Changing the $TERM value (with and without tmux).
• Changing misc g:solarized_* values (also this).
• Overriding some color defaults.

I also reduced my .vimrc to just loading the solarized theme to ensure no other plugin is messing up the colors.

Regardless, whatever I do I end up with this (terminal vim on left, MacVim on right):

The terminal background always appears black vs. the darkblue for solarized. This happens whether the actual terminal background color is black, white, etc.

My current terminal reports 256 color support and TERM=xterm-256color. The t_Co variable is also reporting 256.

Would appreciate any insights on what I may have missed, as I've already spent way too much time on this. Thanks.

Disclaimer: I realize this is a possible duplicate of many similar posts, but non resolved my issue.

Bland

what about the theme of 'terminal' ? if you use github.com/altercation/solarized/blob/master/… , it's the same as maciterm – Scaife

Yeah, I ended up the similar as the right half of your 1st picture, and it's ugly!! How can it be that it's end of 2016 and 2017 is coming, and there is no authoritative guide on installing solarize on iTerm2.... – Strode

So, can you clarify: 1. You don't want to use iTerm's DarkSolarized colors? 2. And, you want your background to be that solarized darkblue color in vim? – Preach

Have you tried installing the theme from this repo ? github.com/altercation/vim-colors-solarized (Plugin 'altercation/vim-colors-solarized') – Scanlon

also I set t_Co=256 permanently and not conditionally – Scanlon

Answer 1

The official github repo for solarized is solarized. I use this repo and never had problems so far. You have to import the colorscheme into iterm2 and thats it.

As a sidenote, do you mind to post relevant parts of your terminal and vim config? Maybe we overlooked something...

Debouch

Answer 2

Based on the image of the terminal and the output of the perl ~/Downloads/256colors2.pl command, it appears you haven't properly set the colors for your terminal. Have you looked at the relevant iTerm files here? https://github.com/altercation/solarized/tree/master/iterm2-colors-solarized?

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