Nvim theme returns to default after set

[mhiuuu]

As I said in the title, every time I set the theme using telescope themes, I would find it comes back to the default theme after quitting Neovim

[andrewberty]

Hello Mathew, Can you please share your telescope config and your init.lua (or wherever you require) the created file, so we can debug it together?

[mhiuuu]

Sure! Here is my telescope.lua

  'nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim',
  event = 'VimEnter',
  branch = '0.1.x',
  dependencies = {
    'nvim-lua/plenary.nvim',
    { 
      'nvim-telescope/telescope-fzf-native.nvim',
      build = 'make',
      cond = function()
        return vim.fn.executable 'make' == 1
      end,
    },
    { "andrew-george/telescope-themes" },
    { 'nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons', enabled = true },
  },
  config = function()
    local builtin_schemes = require("telescope._extensions.themes").builtin_schemes

    require('telescope').setup {
      defaults = {
        mappings = {
          i = {
            ['<C-k>'] = require('telescope.actions').move_selection_previous, -- move to prev result
            ['<C-j>'] = require('telescope.actions').move_selection_next, -- move to next result
            ['<CR>'] = require('telescope.actions').select_default, -- open file
          },
        },
      },
      pickers = {
        find_files = {
          file_ignore_patterns = { 'node_modules', '.git', '.venv' },
          hidden = true,
        },
      },
      live_grep = {
        file_ignore_patterns = { 'node_modules', '.git', '.venv' },
        additional_args = function(_)
          return { '--hidden' }
        end,
      },
      extensions = {
        themes = {
          layout_config = {
            horizontal = {
              width = 0.8,
              height = 0.7,
            },
          },
          enable_previewer = true,
          enable_live_preview = true,
          ignore = vim.list_extend(builtin_schemes, { "embark" }),
          light_themes = {
            ignore = true,
            keywords = { "light", "day", "frappe" }
          },
          dark_themes = {
            ignore = false,
            keywords = { "dark", "night", "black" }
          },
          persist = {
            enabled = true,
            path = vim.fn.stdpath("config") .. "/lua/colorscheme.lua"
          },
          mappings = {
            down = "<C-n>",
            up = "<C-p>",
            accept = "<C-y>",
          },
        },
      },
    }

    -- Enable Telescope extensions if they are installed
    pcall(require('telescope').load_extension, 'fzf')
    pcall(require('telescope').load_extension, 'themes')
  end,
}

and this is init.lua

require 'core.options'
require 'core.keymaps'

local lazypath = vim.fn.stdpath 'data' .. '/lazy/lazy.nvim'
if not (vim.uv or vim.loop).fs_stat(lazypath) then
  local lazyrepo = 'https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim.git'
  local out = vim.fn.system { 'git', 'clone', '--filter=blob:none', '--branch=stable', lazyrepo, lazypath }
  if vim.v.shell_error ~= 0 then
    error('Error cloning lazy.nvim:\n' .. out)
  end
end
vim.opt.rtp:prepend(lazypath)
require('lazy').setup({
    require 'plugins.nvimtree',
    require 'plugins.lualine',
    require 'plugins.bufferline',
    require 'plugins.treesitter',
    require 'plugins.telescope',
    require 'plugins.lsp_config',
    require 'plugins.autocompletion',
    require 'plugins.gitsigns',
    require 'plugins.indent_line',
    require 'plugins.more',
    require 'plugins.startup',
    require 'plugins.term',
    require 'plugins.themes'
})

vim.cmd[[colorscheme tokyonight]]  -- this is added manually to use the tokyonight theme

This is the screencast after I removed the manually added line

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/88659a97-bde8-4263-a3e1-2844b496cd72