Unexpected colors with solarized dark theme on emacs (blue background)

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Alex R picture Alex R · Sep 18, 2011 · Viewed 8.3k times · Source

I have set my iterm2 to use the solarized color theme: terminal

I would also like to have emacs use this theme. Here's what it looks like: emacs

I have my terminal set to xterm-256color. I don't know what I've missed, but it makes me sad.

Help appreciated.

Answer

Alex R picture Alex R · Oct 14, 2011

It turns out that the official (or officially endorsed) soliarized git repo has a version that is less good than this one.

I switched to the latter and it fixed the issue.

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