RE: Different colors on -t vs :ta

>

> Saurabh wrote:
>
> > If there are multiple matches to a tag, vim shows a menu where "# pri
> > kind tag file" are printed.
> >
> > If I do vim -t tag, the colors of the above menu title and the tag are
> > magenta/purple while the filename is in dark blue. Since my background
> > is a dark blue, this looks terrible/invisible.
> >
> > On doing a :ta tag in vim, the colors are fine. It's a very light
> > magenta/pink for the menu title and tag, and light cyan for the
> > filename. This looks proper on my dark blue background.
> >
> > I have syntax on, colo default and bg=dark in my vimrc. My tags file
> > is set in vimrc also, so I know -t is reading the vimrc before it
> > processes the tag, but somehow the syntax highlighting colors are
> > wrong. Any ideas? Thank you.
>
> This most likely happens because the terminal isn't fully initialized
> yet. Specifically, may_req_termresponse() is called later, which
> figures out details about the terminal.
>
> You can try setting t_Co in your vimrc, e.g.:
>
> :set t_Co=256
>
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Hmm, my vimrc already had that setting. I tried playing with different numbers, even removing it, but it did not help.

saurabh