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turboraketti
turboraketti

Reputation: 29

Odd colouring in solarized vim

I have installed Solarized for Vim, as well as for my terminal app, but experience strange background colours. I see the same problems with both iTerm2 on mac running Vim 7.2 on Debian 6, and Putty on win7 running Vim 7.3 on Redhat EL5.9.

Symptoms: The code get the same background as the line numbers. Only strings and reserved words seem to get the correct (lighter) background colour.

Here is an image showing the problem:

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And this is how it should look (screenshot from Solarized home page):

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Any idea what causes this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1345

Answers (2)

Nalum
Nalum

Reputation: 4213

Issue 130 answers this (perhaps it is you?)

If I use PuTTy with the default settings ( not changing to putty-256color ) then the colors are not correctly allocated.

I noticed this line

elseif g:solarized_termcolors != 256 && &t_Co >= 16

checks to see if t_Co > = 16 but Putty identifies itself or at least the variable is 8 which causes the else statement to run.

If I change that statement to:

elseif g:solarized_termcolors != 256 && &t_Co >= 8

then everything works as it should. I don't know how this would affect other terminals but I thought you should know that this is indeed broken and changing that value or adding another conditional would fix this problem.

As a fix in the meantime if anyone has this problem they can simply set t_Co to equal 16 in their vimrc and that appears to fix the problem.

Upvotes: 1

François Drolet
François Drolet

Reputation: 469

Using PuTTY, I had to set the Terminal-type string (under Connection, Data) to xterm-256color instead of xterm.

Upvotes: 1

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