PaperColor colorscheme broken on VimR

[jvoegele]

I use the PaperColor colorscheme for Vim. Although this colorscheme works perfectly in terminal Neovim as well as in terminal Vim and MacVim, it does not work at all in VimR for some reason, as can be seen in the screenshots below.

Terminal Neovim:

MacVim:

VimR:

Those screenshots also show the Vim configuration that I am using, but I'll go ahead and provide it in text for better readability:

set nocompatible

" ===== Begin Vundle setup
filetype off
" set the runtime path to include Vundle and initialize
set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
call vundle#begin()

" let Vundle manage Vundle, required
Plugin 'VundleVim/Vundle.vim'

Plugin 'NLKNguyen/papercolor-theme'

call vundle#end()            " required
filetype plugin indent on    " required
" ===== End Vundle setup

syntax on
set encoding=utf-8
set background=dark
colorscheme PaperColor
"autocmd VimEnter * set background=dark | colorscheme PaperColor

Note the commented-out autocmd, which was my attempt at getting the colorscheme to load after VimR had completely loaded itself, but this did not work either.

Is there anything I can do to get PaperColor working with VimR?

[powelleric]

I'm not having that experience actually. My papercolor theme is installed via vim-colorschemes plugin, I think.

[jvoegele]

I'm not having that experience actually. My papercolor theme is installed via vim-colorschemes plugin, I think.

@powelleric Installing PaperColor via vim-colorschemes has fixed this issue for me. I'm not sure why using the NLKNguyen/papercolor-theme doesn't work, though.

[PrestonKnopp]

papercolor-theme will work if you have set termguicolors. I'm not sure why vim-colorschemes works either.

Try adding this to your config:

if match(expand('$VIM'), 'VimR.app') > -1
    " set true color
    set termguicolors
endif

[grem11n]

For me the solution came from the combination of workarounds mentioned here and in https://github.com/qvacua/vimr/issues/657

I've added the code bloe into my config and it works fine now:

if has("gui_vimr")
  set termguicolors
  set background=dark
  colorscheme PaperColor
endif