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

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

Some info on skin writing is available on MC wiki, 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Also, it seems it's bloody scattered all over the place, and one has to collect tiny, and I do mean TINY, and sometimes outdated, pieces of information to form something complete.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 See MC install script on how to compile from source.

Clone the repostiry into mc config or skins directory and define environment MC_SKIN in .bashrc, .zshrc or .whatnotrc:

mkdir -p $HOME/.config/mc/skins/
git clone https://github.com/jmaks/mc-solarized-skin.git $HOME/.config/mc/skins/
echo "MC_SKIN=$HOME/.config/mc/skins/mc-solarized-skin/solarized.ini\n export MC_SKIN" >> $HOME/.zshrc