Color scheme conflict

[ghost]

The color scheme of the terminal makes it impossible to see certain text. For example, using neovim I'm editing a .vimrc file and some text colors match the background.

Here is the same file after I've dragged the mouse across it to select all the text, revealing text that had the same color as the background.

Notice lines 3, 4, and 8-14.

What would be the best course of action to correct this? Is this an issue with the st color theme, or perhaps and issue with the neovim syntax highlighting theme?

[kgilmer]

Does the same issue occur in light mode? (Toggle w F6)

On Thu, May 2, 2019, 7:40 PM Matt Reyer notifications@github.com wrote:

The color scheme of the terminal makes it impossible to see certain text. For example, using neovim I'm editing a .vimrc file and some text colors match the background.

[image: Screenshot from 2019-05-02 22-35-43] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/270504/57117550-e3d5bb80-6d2a-11e9-9d86-9cf19832dea6.png

Here is the same file after I've dragged the mouse across it to select all the text, revealing text that had the same color as the background.

[image: Screenshot from 2019-05-02 22-36-34] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/270504/57117573-1da6c200-6d2b-11e9-8698-c183e98c75f2.png

Notice lines 3, 4, and 8-14.

What would be the best course of action to correct this? Is this an issue with the st color theme, or perhaps and issue with the neovim syntax highlighting theme?

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[kgilmer]

To answer your question, I have not seen this issue myself. I use vim, but do not have any customization. This is where the solarized colors are defined for st: https://github.com/regolith-linux/regolith-st/blob/master/debian/patches/st-solarized-both-20190128-3be4cf1.diff

I am guessing that your vimrc uses similar colors and there is some text color that is too close to the background color of st...

[ghost]

Yep.

[ghost]

To clarify, this is all happening with a vanilla install of everything. Same results even without that minimal config you see in that screenshot. I haven't customized colors of anything myself. I'm new to vim so I'm not sure where the appropriate place to mess with colors is (terminal vs. vim itself).

[kgilmer]

Oh I see. I just installed neovim and see the same thing you do. Then I compiled st without any customization and my bashrc looks fine in neovim, so it's def something with the patches applied to st. I played around with the TERM variable but no luck. I suggest for now either using regular vim (2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1) (install w/ sudo apt install vim) or perhaps use another terminal with neovim.

[kgilmer]

After some more searching I found that the Solarized patch that is in regolith-st recommends changing the colors for vim (I'm guessing neovim?):

https://st.suckless.org/patches/solarized/ https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=164108

Would love to know if this fixes your issue w/ neovim!

[ghost]

Installing this solarized theme did the trick! Maybe mentioning this issue in some documentation would help someone in the future.

https://github.com/altercation/solarized/tree/master/vim-colors-solarized

[kgilmer]

Great to hear and thanks for following up @winduptoy . I've added a README and referenced this issue: https://github.com/regolith-linux/regolith-st/tree/master

[ghost]

@kgilmer I think you've been hacked dude ☝️

[kgilmer]

Thanks @winduptoy , yep seems so. Hopefully changing all my passwords is enough. :worried: