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It's\nawfully frustrating how difficult macOS makes it to export some of these\nconfigurations in useful, reusable formats.\n\n## Installation\n\n1. Download or clone this repo:\n   ```bash\n   git clone https://github.com/mccutchen/macos-terminal-selenized.git\n   ```\n\n2. Copy color palettes into place:\n   ```bash\n   cp macos-terminal-selenized/*.clr ~/Library/Colors\n   ```\n\n3. Install the terminal profile:\n   ```bash\n   open macos-terminal-selenized/Selenized\\ Light.terminal\n   ```\n\n\n## Notes\n\n- I only care about the Selenized Light theme, so that's all I have here.\n\n- The palettes here were assembled manually in the macOS color picker by\n  copy/pasting color values from [these tables][3], and then copied from\n  `~/Library/Colors` into this repo.\n  - (The values were actually taken from\n    [jan-warchol/selenized#100][4], because the table above\n    seems to be slightly outdated?)\n\n- I'm not sure which color space should be used with Terminal.app, so there's a\n  palette for both sRGB and AppleRGB. The Selenized project just provides this\n  cryptic warning w/r/t choosing the right colors for Terminal.app:\n\n  \u003e Remember to use coordinates from correct color space.\n\n- The included terminal profile was set up according to the mappings specified\n  in the [manual installation instructions][5], and includes these additional\n  tweaks according to my own preferences:\n  - Font: 12pt Menlo\n  - Window size: 130x30\n  - \u003ckbd\u003e^←\u003c/kbd\u003e and \u003ckbd\u003e^→\u003c/kbd\u003e are remapped to `\\033b` and `\\033f`,\n    respectively\n\n## Here be dragons?\n\nThe Selenized project [warns against using Terminal.app][2] and recommends\niTerm2 instead:\n\n\u003e Using Selenized with OS X default terminal is problematic. That's because\n\u003e Terminal.app has a misfeature: it will modify the colors you set in\n\u003e preferences according to its own liking, and you cannot disable this\n\u003e behaviour.\n\u003e\n\u003e Therefore I strongly recommend that Mac users switch to\n\u003e [iTerm](http://www.iterm2.com/), which seems to be a much better terminal\n\u003e emulator anyway. 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