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I've followed the instructions for installing Solarized on iTerm 2, on my new OSX Yosemite machine. It looks as though the background and basic colours are being applied, and $TERM produces xterm-256color.
However, everything is very monochrome. How can I get iTerm to highlight the output in a more helpful way?
Richard
Posted 2015-01-06T18:14:08.387
Reputation: 419
what do you expect to be colorized? try
ls -G. It seems that solarized is a set of color schemes. IT doesn't make your commands do colorization. You may need to check yourvimsettings as well – Rich Homolka – 2015-01-06T23:03:48.677I was hoping that the details of
– Richard – 2015-01-07T07:15:45.633ls -alwould be colorized in a useful way. I've followed the instructions for setting up Solarized with vim here: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/vim-colors-solarized - I now have nice colours in vim, but I still have a very monochrome GUI.I think the section "IMPORTANT NOTE FOR TERMINAL USERS" on http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/vim-colors-solarized might be relevant ("If you are going to use Solarized in Terminal mode...") but I can't understand what it's asking me to do.
– Richard – 2015-01-07T07:17:12.543This may also be relevant, as it's how I installed solarized: https://github.com/altercation/solarized/tree/master/iterm2-colors-solarized
– Richard – 2015-01-07T07:20:46.170As I said before, You need to add the G flag (on Mac OS X) for it to colonize. – Rich Homolka – 2015-01-08T00:24:36.467
I use in my
.bashrcthe following alias:alias ls="/bin/ls --color -lF"– F. Hauri – 2015-03-19T12:54:37.797@F.Hauri why are you specifying the path to
ls? That should be in yourPATH. And the--coloroption is for GNUls. For the builtin BSDls,ls -lGFshould be used – Max Coplan – 2018-11-28T18:59:11.837@MaxCoplan to prevent use of previously defined alias or function. By spefifying the path, I ensure
/bin/lsand nothing else, will be used. – F. Hauri – 2018-11-29T23:00:13.830