For some reason, using ctermbg=7 causes the ^^^ symbols to appear in the
status line when the high contrast variant is active. That happens both
in terminal and in MacVim. Setting the foreground to 15 fixes the
problem (that is high contrast anyway).
The content of this file is adapted from the original Solarized theme.
The color palette is exactly the same, but I have removed some cruft and
made some adjustments here and there (see the comments) to better suit
my taste. For example, I can't stand dark text on a red background, so
I have changed ErrorMsg to use a white foreground even in dark mode.
I have not removed *all* the bullshit Solarized source, as the
[Flattened](https://github.com/romainl/flattened.git) theme does,
because I like the possibility of using different contrast levels
(besides Solarized's low, normal, and high contrast modes, I have even
added my own). Although this file may be used as it is, I plan to use it
to generate eight "presets", four with a dark background and four with
a light background, one for each contrast level. Then, I'll keep this in
a development branch, but I plan to remove it from master.
I have started this project because recent Vim versions support true
color terminals, i.e., they use gui color definitions. The original
Solarized does not define guifg and guibg when used by terminal Vim.
This project works in true color terminals out of the box (tested with
iTerm), besides working in GUI Vim (of course), and in terminals using
Solarized 16-color palette. The degraded 256-color version of Solarized
has been removed, because it is ugly and useless (for me). It's called
Solarized8 because true color support will make its way into the
upcoming Vim 8 release.
I have added an option to set the background color of the active status
line to the same color as the inactive status line
(g:solarized_statusline). Besides, I have added a few highlight groups:
NormalMode
InsertMode
VisualMode
CommandMode
ReplaceMode
I need these changes for my own status line (whose color changes
according to the current mode). Other users may safely ignore them.
