Re: [vim colours + iTerm2 colours]

On 2020-09-23, 'Grant Taylor' via vim_use <vim_use@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> On 9/22/20 7:33 AM, Maxim Abalenkov wrote:
>> I tend to use both vim colours and iTerm2 colour scheme. If I understand
>> correctly, the resulting colours that I see are a mixture of both Vim
>> and iTerm2 colour profiles superimposed. Therefore, my question is how
>> do I tell Vim to use only Vim colour settings and ignore the iTerm2
>> colours? Thank you very much and have a productive day ahead!
>
> Doesn't vim just specify the color number / index (0-7 / 0-15 / 0-255)
> that it wants used for specific characters and then rely on the terminal
> (emulator) to set the actual colors used for any given color number / index?

Not when termguicolors is set to 1.

> I don't think there is any (good*) way for vim to know that you're using
> iTerm2 and adjust it's behavior accordingly. I think this is all in
> iTerm2's control.

iTerm2 defines $TERM_PROGRAM to 'iTerm.app' and $LC_TERMINAL to
'iTerm2'.

Life.

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