Lokaltog/vim-powerline — pull request #231 by stephenmckinney (2012-10-25 17:19:33+00:00)
Title: Skwp/Solarized colorscheme for terminal vim

Using skwp in terminal Vim:
![screenshot](https://www.evernote.com/shard/s6/sh/6e87f5dd-2639-4e97-a0a3-fdd9493a5c8a/fd360fe2997eaf3dbb5fe0a90bb00dbf/res/5e2f2539-d147-4f64-bb6e-ec3d52e18846/Screen_Shot_2012-10-25_at_12.58.40_PM-20121025-130440.jpg)

Using skwp16 in terminal Vim:
![screenshot](https://www.evernote.com/shard/s6/sh/6230ce3f-67f0-4749-9de1-95a9f78984c0/d06b0f7b130a058a4bdf01ffb2ce7eb3/res/bf365acc-857d-48f7-b524-7350b33a47ef/Screen_Shot_2012-10-25_at_12.59.43_PM-20121025-131746.jpg)

The current skwp theme is based on the XTERM *limited* 256 terminal palette see https://github.com/altercation/vim-colors-solarized#the-values. Simply setting `base02: [0, 0x073642]` doesn't solve all the issues with terminal Vim.

This colorscheme, skwp16, is based the *specific* values for the Solarized palette, using the terminal's 16 ansi color values.

From https://github.com/altercation/vim-colors-solarized#important-note-for-terminal-users:
> If you are going to use Solarized in Terminal mode (i.e. not in a GUI version like gvim or macvim), **please please please** consider setting your terminal emulator's colorscheme to used the Solarized palette...by using the terminal's 16 ansi color values, you can set the correct, specific values for the Solarized palette).

This colorscheme will work better for the users who follow the instructions in Solarized.