Re: Warning about undefined background when exiting file

Am Montag, 17. Juni 2013 17:29:08 UTC+2 schrieb Bee:
> On Jun 17, 2:39 am, Pascal Hasko Bernhard
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> <pascal.hasko.bernh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> > Hey all,
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> > Everytime I quit a file viewed or edited by vi/vim I get the following
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> > message:
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> > 'Warning: Color name "BACKGROUND" is not defined'
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> > This happens only when in a graphical desktop environment, not on the
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> > 'real' console (CTRL+ALT+F2) though. I tried several desktops (MATE [my
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> > default], GNOME Shell, XFCE, KDE) as well as different terminal
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> > emulators (GNOME terminal, MATE terminal, Konsole, LXTerminal,
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> > UXTerm...). Always the same behavior. Then I set different color schemes
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> > for vim, no success. The same happens when changing the color scheme of
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> > the terminal emulator. This behavior afflicts all users, I logged in
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> > with different users, root is affected too.
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> >
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> > The locale settings are correct (en_US.UTF-, I checked to be sure that
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> > it's not case of a configuration file that cannot read the variable
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> > 'BACKGROUND'. I grep'ed all vim-files for the string 'BACKGROUND' to see
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> > whether there was something misconfigured here, no luck.
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> >
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> > It seems like I'm the only person having this problem, I could not find
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> > solution for the issue online.
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> >
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> > Vim is in version 7.3.905
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> >
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> > The following packages are installed:
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> >
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> > vim-core-7.3.905
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> > vim-7.3.905
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> > gvim-7.3.905 (I do not use the GUI, but have it installed nonetheless)
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> >
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> > Sabayon Linux 11 64bit (MATE desktop)
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> >
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> > Otherwise there are no issues with vi/vim. I can edit files without any
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> > problems, so in principle vi/vim seem work just fine. BTW: It doesn't
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> > matter whether I use VI or VIM, both complain about the background color
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> > being undefined.
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> >
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> > Any ideas?
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> Try opening vim with:
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> vim -U NONE
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> -u NONE ## No .vimrc, No .gvimrc, No plugin

Problem persists

> -U NONE ## No .gvimrc

Problem persists


> -u NORC ## No .vimrc, Load plugins

Does not open file but instead produces this output:

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Xsession-Errors.txt Error detected while processing function l9#guardScriptLoading:
line 7:
E15: Invalid expression:
E15: Invalid expression: a:l9Version > 0 && (a:l9Version > s:L9_VERSION_CURRENT ||
E15: Invalid expression:
E15: Invalid expression: a:l9Version > 0 && (a:l9Version > s:L9_VERSION_CURRENT ||
line 8:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/txtfmt.vim:
line 67:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 68:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 337:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 338:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 339:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 340:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 341:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 342:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 343:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 344:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 346:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 347:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 348:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 349:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 351:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 352:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/undotree.vim:
line 85:
E697: Missing end of List ']':
E15: Invalid expression: ['" ===== Marks ===== ',
line 86:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 87:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 88:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 89:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 90:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 91:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/unite/bookmark.vim:
line 28:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/unite/buffer.vim:
line 28:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/unite/directory_mru.vim:
line 28:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/unite/file_mru.vim:
line 28:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/unite/history_yank.vim:
line 28:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/unite/tab.vim:
line 28:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/unite/window.vim:
line 28:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/unite.vim:
line 34:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 36:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &Warning: Color name "BACKGROUND" is not defined

Press ENTER or type command to continue

Pressing ENTER gives me that:

Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/nerdtree_plugin/exec_menuitem.vim:
line 18:
E15: Invalid expression:


I guess I'll to remove plugins one by one, to see whether one of those is causing the issue. Removing the 'nerdtree' plugin does not solve the problem.

> See...
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> :help gui-colors
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> :help -u

Those do not help me much, not to say not at all. What information am I supposed to be looking for in these help files?

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