Re: How does vim choose a color that is not in the terminals color palette?

On Mi, 14 Jun 2017, S. Jacobi wrote:

> I am using termite as my terminal emulator, which advertises 256 colors
> support via terminfo. I only defined 20 colors: fg, fg_bold, bg, cursor
> and the 16 colors in their normal and bright variants.
> I do not use a vim colorscheme, just the terminal colors. In some shell
> scripts I see colors that I have not defined and which are not affected
> if I change my color palette. So my question is: How are those colors
> determined and how can I change them?
>
> How to reproduce:
> 1) set t_Co=256 in vimrc (if it is set to 16 those "new" colors do not
> appear)
> 2) I set all 16 colors in my termite config file to #ff0000 (to
> oberserve the changes)
> 3) Minimal shell script:
> #/bin/bash
> $testvar=1
> cd dir
> ./command --help
> 4) $testvar is in cyan, --help is in some pinkish color
>
> I haven't tested setting all 256 colors in my config file to red, if
> this affects those two cases I found.

I think those are hard coded default values see syntax/syncolor.vim

Best,
Christian
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