Solarized for Emacs is an Emacs port of the Solarized theme for vim, developed by Ethan Schoonover.
Solarized for Emacs is tested only under Emacs 24, but should be
working under Emacs 23 as well. The theme is implemented in terms of
customizations and deftheme and does not require the
color-theme-package.
Download solarized.el, solarized-dark-theme.el and
solarized-light-theme.el.
Place solarized.el is a folder that's on your Emacs' load-path.
Afterward place solarized-dark-theme.el and
solarized-light-theme.el in ~/.emacs.d/themes (or some other
folder if you prefer so). Add this your
.emacs.d:
(add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path "~/.emacs.d/themes")
Now you can load the theme with the interactive function load-theme.
Solarized for Emacs is available for installation via the
MELPA and
Marmalade package.el
repositories. Assuming you've set one of the them up (I recommend
MELPA) you can install solarized like this:
M-x package-install solarized-theme
Afterwards - business as usual, just load one of the theme variants
with M-x load-theme.
If you don't like low-contrast modeline or fringe, you can customize them either by doing M-x customize-group solarized or setting the values using elisp code:
;; make the fringe stand out from the background
(setq solarized-distinct-fringe-background t)
;; make the modeline high contrast
(setq solarized-high-contrast-mode-line t)Note that these need to be set before load-theme is invoked for Solarized.
Please, report any problems that you find on the projects integrated issue tracker. If you've added some improvements and you want them included upstream don't hesitate to send me a patch or even better - a GitHub pull request.
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