{"id":170,"date":"2011-11-27T02:27:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T07:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2011-11-27T02:27:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T07:27:15","slug":"getting-the-solarized-theme-to-work-in-emacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codefork.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/27\/getting-the-solarized-theme-to-work-in-emacs\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting the Solarized Theme to Work in Emacs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I discovered the Solarized<\/a> color palette about a month ago, and have been using it since. I’ve found it helpful for reducing eye strain.<\/p>\n

Getting the palette colors to accurately display in terminal-based Emacs under Ubuntu 11.10 took a bit of work. There’s a lot of scattered info about this topic if you google around. I first tried to do it with as little modification to my system as possible (I’m a minimalist), but I found that I absolutely had to do these three things to get it working.<\/p>\n

1) Set the color palette in gnome-terminal.<\/strong> No matter what I tried, I could not get Emacs colors to look right without this step, so it’s a crucial one. Don’t skip it.<\/p>\n

Solarized comes with an Xdefaults file, but that didn’t work for me. This blog post<\/a> had instructions for setting gnome-terminal colors using gconftool-2, and that worked very nicely.<\/p>\n

I put the commands in a handy little shell script that allows you to choose either the light or dark version of the palette. You can get it here:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/gist.github.com\/1397104<\/a><\/p>\n

2) Your TERM environment variable needs to be set to “xterm-256color.”<\/strong> The default “xterm” will cause the Solarized color theme to look completely crazy in emacs.<\/p>\n

Add the following line to your ~\/.bashrc line (if you already set TERM there or some elsewhere else, change it instead of adding this):<\/p>\n

export TERM=\"xterm-256color\"<\/code><\/p>\n

3) Use this version of the Emacs color theme for Solarized:<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/github.com\/sellout\/emacs-color-theme-solarized<\/a><\/p>\n

Note that unless you’re using Emacs 24 (pre-release source code tarballs are available here<\/a>), you’ll also need the color-theme<\/a> package if you don’t already have it installed.<\/p>\n

Put the files in a directory. In your .emacs file, you’ll need to add the directory to your load-path; I also added a bit of conditional logic for how to load the color theme in Emacs 23 and 24, since I switch between them:<\/p>\n

(add-to-list 'load-path \"~\/.emacs.d\/emacs-color-theme-solarized\")\r\n(if\r\n    (equal 0 (string-match \"^24\" emacs-version))\r\n    ;; it's emacs24, so use built-in theme \r\n    (require 'solarized-dark-theme)\r\n  ;; it's NOT emacs24, so use color-theme\r\n  (progn\r\n    (require 'color-theme)\r\n    (color-theme-initialize)\r\n    (require 'color-theme-solarized)\r\n    (color-theme-solarized-dark)))\r\n<\/pre>\n
That should do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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