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Solarized skin for Midnight Commander
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This is a skin for Midnight Commander [1] using the Solarized palette [2]. It
is designed to be used with terminal emulators that use Solarized palette as
their ANSI colors [3].

It is a fork from nkulikov/mc-solarized-skin however it was rewriten from
scratch based on GoTaR [4] MC skin. The file highliting was adjusted to be as
close as possible to the Solarized dircolors.ansi-universal [5].

Some info on skin writing is available on MC wiki [6],
yet it's usually takes a PHD to understand what's going on.
And since I'm senile and lazy, I don't want to keep going to external references.
Also, it seems it's bloody scattered all over the place, and one has to collect tiny, and I do mean TINY, and sometimes outdated, pieces of information to form something complete.
That's why I took the libery to comment EVERYTHING, just in case.

Note you might need mc > 4.7.5 for this scheme to work (otherwise this file will not be read)
Hint: compile from the git repository

Usage
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Put the solarized.ini file into the $HOME/.mc directory. Then define MC_SKIN
env variable:
$ export MC_SKIN=$HOME/.mc/solarized.ini

Color reference:
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Syntax is: Text color;Background color

SOLARIZED HEX       TERMCOL
--------  -------   -------
base03    #002b36   brightblack
base02    #073642   black
base01    #586e75   brightgreen
base00    #657b83   brightyellow
base0     #839496   brightblue
base1     #93a1a1   brightcyan
base2     #eee8d5   white
base3     #fdf6e3   brightwhite
yellow    #b58900   brown
orange    #cb4b16   brightred
red       #dc322f   red
magenta   #d33682   magenta
violet    #6c71c4   brightmageta
blue      #268bd2   blue
cyan      #2aa198   cyan
green     #859900   green

lightgray

Links
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[1] - https://www.midnight-commander.org/
[2] - http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
[3] - For gnome-terminal look here:
      https://github.com/sigurdga/gnome-terminal-colors-solarized
[4] - http://www.midnight-commander.org/nopaste/skin_parser/outdir/
[5] - https://github.com/seebi/dircolors-solarized
[6] - https://www.midnight-commander.org/wiki/doc/common/skins