Re: highlight with transparent background

On 02/17/2011 11:32 PM, Ben Schmidt wrote:
>> Thanks for the suggestion! I tried your solution with a few different
>> configurations but i couldn't get it to work. Maybe it has something
>> to do with
>> the Molokai colorscheme i'm currently using. One strange thing about
>> that (or
>> maybe i simply don't understand it) is it's definition for StatusLine:
>>
>> hi StatusLine guifg=#455354 guibg=fg
>> hi StatusLineNC guifg=#808080 guibg=#080808
>>
>> It defines the background as 'fg'. When i use fg in User1 it simply is
>> white
>> (which is indeed the default color of the normal text). I also tried
>> the real
>> color (#465457) as bg for User1 for your solution, but then User1 has
>> always that
>> background color (bot in StatusLine and StatusLineNC).
>> I'll use a background color for now, as this seems a lot more complex
>> as it should
>> be...
>
> This was really annoying me, so I had a look at it.
>
> And yes, it's to do with the molokai colorscheme which is arguably
> somewhat broken.
>
> If you look at your statusline and those foreground and background
> colours listed above, they are clearly wrong. They are 'backwards'. The
> foreground is the background and viceversa. This is because, I think,
> molokai hasn't cleared out the highlight groups, and the 'reverse'
> setting of the defaults are still there. You can see this if you just
> issue :hi and look for StatusLine and StatusLineNC.
>
> The way to get it to work is to do the same thing with your User1
> highlight. E.g.:
>
> :hi User1 gui=reverse guifg=#455354 guibg=Red
>
> This would be easier and more sensible if molokai defined the StatusLine
> properly, by including a gui=NONE or gui=bold attribute, or doing :hi
> clear StatusLine before defining the fg and bg as desired. Relying on
> the default 'reverse' attribute of StatusLine is confusing.
>
This works indeed :) Thank you very much!

Jeroen

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