Re: Colors when opening a file where a swap file exists

On Di, 10 Dez 2013, Martin Lundberg wrote:

> On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 10:59:52 AM UTC+1, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > Sorry, I think, I meant the MoreMsg highlighting group. There is no
> > ConfirmMsg highlighting group.
> >
> > What I mean is, if you see this message when starting vim or gvim,
> > then by that time, Vim hasn't adjusted the colors to the corresponding
> > colorscheme yet, simply because is hasn't sourced your colorscheme
> > yet, so it uses a compiled default, which might not match your
> > terminal. You can tell by provoking this message again, after Vim was
> > loaded, and see, if Vim uses a different color then.
>
> Yes, that seem to be the case. If I open another file which is already open after I've opened the first the message is in the color that I've set.

Does it change with vim --cmd ':set bg=dark' or
vim --cmd ':set bg=light'
?
>
> > What should work however is to reset the 'hl' setting by e.g.
> > vim --cmd "let &hl=substitute(&hl, 'm:[^,]*,', 'm:ErrorMsg,', '')"
> > foobar
>
> I tried this and then the message was shown with the color that ErrorMsg has.

Okay, that was expected.

>
> > But it might be easier to configure your terminal correctly. What
> > terminal are you using and what is your $TERM variable? It might
> > already help to force Vim to use a 't_Co' setting of 256, e.g. do an
> > export TERM=xterm-256colors
> > in your terminal (or whathever your shell needs)
>
> I'm using iTerm2 and TERM is set to xterm-256color. If I run :set
> t_Co? inside vim I get 256.

Sorry, don't know iTerm2 well. From a quick google search xterm-256color
seems to be correct. Can't you configure it for other colors?

Best,
Christian
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