Styjun

I am struggling on the installation of solarized plugin on vim, the following are the steps I followed

1. Use gmarik/Vundle.vim to install the solarized plugin (with the below .vimrc script)


2. Run vim +PluginInstall +qall to install the plugin


3. Put the following lines in the .vimrc:

syntax enable

set background=dark

colorscheme solarized

.vimrc script used

But outcome the solarized plugin comes with following results which look and feel are not as expected

Expecting look


Is there anything I have done wrong? Please advice. Thanks and appreciate everyone for the kind help

Try to add

set t_Co=256
let g:solarized_termcolors=256

Looks better, but still different from the capture shown by the author

I had the same problem once. I guess the easiest way to do this is using pathogen. To install pathogen, from console:

 mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload ~/.vim/bundle; 
curl -LSso ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim 
 https://raw.github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen/master/autoload/pathogen.vim

Then add this to your .vimrc:

execute pathogen#infect()

Now you can install plugins into ~/.vim/bundle which will be automatically loaded to vim. To install solarized theme, simply add vim-colors-solarized plugin:

cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone git://github.com/altercation/vim-colors-solarized.git

The rest you have, which is setting t_Co to 256 and setting colorscheme to solarized. You may also try:

set t_Co = 256

Finally changing terminal emulator's color scheme to solarized might help. Or if you don't want to do this, add this line in .vimrc before setting your colorscheme to solarized:

let g:solarized_termcolors=256 

I hope it helps :)

Try using the following in your vimrc:


set background=dark


before you activate the colorscheme.

EDIT: have just reread your question and realised you already do this. Apologies!

set term=foo is useless: the TERM environment variable should be set by your terminal emulator or, baring that, in your shell's *rc file.

Supposing you use CLI Vim, you can obtain something that looks like that screenshot if you set your terminal emulator up to use the solarized palette.

I used vim-plug to add solarize. In .vimrc I added...

if empty(glob('~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim')) silent !curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs
 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim autocmd VimEnter * PlugInstall --sync | source $MYVIMRC endif call 
plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')

Plug 'altercation/vim-colors-solarized'

call plug#end()

set background=dark

colorscheme solarized

Then after saving and closing, I run this to install

vim +'PlugInstall --sync' +qa