Re: Formatting help files

2010/6/1 Stahlman Family <brettstahlman@comcast.net>

Pablo Giménez wrote:

Hi Brett.
I am checking some text formatted with tftfmt in a terminal and for some
colorschemes the characters used to format the test appear visible in the
buffer.

Pablo,

The following section in the Txtfmt help gives a detailed explanation...

:help txtfmt-cterm-ignore-issue

...but the basic idea is this: for color terminals, when the background color is not known to Vim, Vim must rely upon the special "Ignore" highlight group to conceal the tokens. Note that the Ignore group was actually created in Vim6 precisely to allow special characters in help files to be hidden:

--From version6.txt--
"Ignore" highlight group: Text highlighted with this is made blank.  It is used to hide special characters in the help text.
---

For various reasons, however, some colorscheme authors have chosen to make the "Ignore" group quite visible. (Note that this is never an issue in the GUI where the background color is always known to Vim.) The Txtfmt help presents at least 3 workarounds for a cterm...

:help txtfmt-cterm-ignore-workaround

Well I found the autocomand solution should be the best for me.
I have the next in my vimrc:
 " Commands to be executed after the color scheme has been loaded
    augroup colorStarted
    if !has("gui_running")
        autocmd ColorScheme * hi Ignore ctermfg=black
    endif
    autocmd ColorScheme * Refresh
    augroup END

And unfortunately is not working, I have check the list of autocommands and everything looks ok, with the new commands for ColorScheme event, but is not working.
The one that refresh txtfmt after loading a colro  scheme works grat and now I can change my color scheme and get everything sync.
If the hi Ignore would work I think that the perfect solution should be to grab the background solor of the current colro scheme and use it as the colro for the Ignore group.
There is any way to know the background color of the current scheme???
cheers

Also if you change your current colorscheme in gvim the "format chatacters"
appears.
Is there any way to ensure that "format" characters will stay hidden always?

After changing your colorscheme, you should run...

:Refresh

...to get Txtfmt back in synch. This command can also be used when you have changed Txtfmt options and wish to have them take effect immediately (i.e., without restarting Vim or reloading the buffer).

Let me know if any of this is unclear...

Thanks,
Brett Stahlman


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Best Regards
Pablo Giménez

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