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Solarized Changelog
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## Current release 1.0.0beta2
1.0.0beta2
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### Summary
Switch to the alternative red hue (final and only hue change), included a whole
heap of new ports and updates to the existing Vim colorscheme. The list of all
currently included ports, highlighted items are new, updates noted:
#### Editors & IDEs
* \[UPDATED\] **Vim**
* \[NEW\] ***Emacs***
* \[NEW\] ***IntelliJ IDEA***
* \[NEW\] ***NetBeans***
* \[NEW\] ***SeeStyle theme for Coda & SubEthaEdit***
* \[NEW\] ***TextMate***
* \[NEW\] ***Visual Studio***
#### Terminal Emulators
* \[UPDATED\] **iTerm2 colorschemes**
* \[UPDATED\] **OS X Terminal.app colors**
* \[UPDATED\] **Xresources colors**
#### Other Applications
* \[UPDATED\] **Mutt mail client colorschemes**
#### Palettes
* \[UPDATED\] **Adobe Photoshop Swatches**
* \[UPDATED\] **Apple Color Picker Palette**
* \[UPDATED\] **Gimp Palette**
### Critical Changes
These changes may require you to change your configuration.
* **GLOBAL : IMPROVEMENT : New red accent color value**
Modified red from L\*a\*b lightness value 45 to 50 to bring it in
line with the other accent colors and address bleed into dark background on
some displays, as well as reducing shift of red against base03 when viewed
with glasses (chromatic aberration). All instances of the colorscheme and
palettes updated to new red and avalailable for use/import without further
modification. Forks and ports should pull new changes and/or update ported
red value accordingly. The new red:
red #dc322f
* **VIM : CHANGE : Default mode now 16 color**
Default terminal mode is now ***16 colors***. Most of the users of terminal
mode seem comfortabel and capable changing terminal colors. This is the
preferred method of implementing Solarized in Terminal mode. If you wish to
instead use the degraded 256 color palette, you may do so with the
following line in your .vimrc:
let g:solarized_termcolors=256
You no longer need to specify "let g:solarized_termcolors=16" as it is now
the default; leaving it in your .vimrc won't hurt anything, however.
* **VIM : IMPROVEMENT : New Toggle Background Plugin**
Added new Toggle Background plugin. Will load automatically and show up as
a menu item in the `Window` menu in gui vim. Automatically maps to <F5> if
available (won't clobber that mapping if you're using it). Also available
as a command `:ToggleBG`. To manually map to something other than <F5>:
To set your own mapping in your .vimrc file, simply add the following line
to support normal, insert and visual mode usage, changing the "<F5>" value
to the key or key combination you wish to use:
call togglebg#map("<F5>")
Note that you'll want to use a single function key or equivalent if you want
the plugin to work in all modes (normal, insert, visual).
* **VIM : IMPROVEMENT : Special & Non-text items now more visible**
Special characters such as trailing whitespace, tabs, newlines, when
displayed using ":set list" can be set to one of three levels depending on
your needs.
g:solarized_visibility = "normal"| "high" or "low"
I'll be honest: I still prefer low visibility. I like them barely there.
They show up in lines that are highlighted as by the cursor line, which
works for me. If you are with me on this, put the following in your .vimrc:
g:solarized_visibility = "low"
### Non Critical Changes
These changes should not impact your usage of the Solarized.
* **PALETTES : IMPROVEMENT : Colorspace tagged and untagged versions**
Changed default OS X color picker palatte swatches to tagged colors (sRGB)
and included alternate palette with untagged color swatches for advanced
users (v1.0.0beta1 had untagged as default).
* **VIM : BUGFIX : Better display in Terminal.app, other emulators**
Terminal.app and other common terminal emulators that report 8 color mode
had display issues due to order of synt highlighting definitions and color
values specified. These have been conformed and reordered in such a way
that there is a more graceful degrading of the Solarized color palette on
8 color terminals. Infact, the experience should be almost identical to gui
other than lack of bold typeface.
* **VIM : BUGFIX : Better distinction between status bar and split windows**
Status bar was previously too similar to the cursor line and window splits.
This has now been changed significantly to improve the clarity of what is
status, cursor line and window separator.
* **VIM : STREAMLINED : Removed simultaneous gui/cterm definitions**
* Refactored solarized.vim to eliminate simultaneous definition of gui and
cterm values.
* **VIM : BUGFIX : Removed italicized front in terminal mode**
Removed default italicized font in terminal mode in the Solarized Vim
colorscheme (many terminal emulators display Vim italics as reversed type).
Italics still used in GUI mode by default and can still be turned off in
both modes by setting a variable: `let g:solarized_italic=0`.
1.0.0beta1
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First public release. Included:
* Adobe Photoshop Swatches
* Apple Color Picker Palette
* Gimp Palette
* iTerm2 colorschemes
* Mutt mail client colorschemes
* OS X Terminal.app colors
* Vim Colorscheme
* Xresources colors
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MODIFIED: 2011 Apr 16