Color palette confusion: gvim is right but vim is wrong

graysky · 2016-11-23 19:58:08

Applying the desert theme in vim looks wrong compared to doing it in gvim despite having TERM=xterm-256color in my env. I am using xfce4-terminal 0.8.1-1. How can I get the terminal to update its palette to make the them in vim appear correctly? Is there a better terminal emulator I can use that will automatically set this? I am not opposed to switching.

Last edited by graysky (2016-11-24 15:05:52)

Stefan Husmann · 2016-11-23 20:09:05

Did you see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=176771 ?

graysky · 2016-11-23 20:21:54

Stefan Husmann wrote:

Did you see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=176771 ?

Yes, I did... that was one of the unsolved posts I found. I believe my xfce4-term is setup correctly:

% echo $TERM
xterm-256color

% tput colors
256

% for ((x=0; x<=255; x++));do echo -e "${x}:\033[48;5;${x}mcolor\033[000m";done
<< outputs the expected fancy colors>>

Last edited by graysky (2016-11-23 20:22:06)

graysky · 2016-11-24 15:04:48

Can someone else verify I am not alone in this?

If you have vim installed just edit the included /usr/share/vim/vim80/colors/desert.vim and set the scheme to that.

vim /usr/share/vim/vim80/colors/desert.vim
:colorscheme desert

Compare to my screenshot where gvim on the right displays/renders the theme correctly but the terminal vim does not.

Last edited by graysky (2016-11-24 15:05:21)

alphaniner · 2016-11-25 22:03:39

In xfce4-terminal (which is at defaults) I don't get yellow, so for example "if version > 580" is all orange. Also in place of your purple ("Maintainer:" etc) I see magenta. Otherwise the same.

In urxvt it's pretty much the same as yours except s/purple/magenta again.

Trilby · 2016-11-25 22:25:05

That theme doesn't use 256 colors in the terminal. The color definitions are right in your screenshot - read them. Is there any reason you'd even expect these to look the same?

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Color palette confusion: gvim is right but vim is wrong

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