emphasis and bold not emphasized and bold

[ZelphirKaltstahl]

• My terminal emulator's preferences have a checkbox "allow bold text", which is checked.
• The font I use in the terminal emulator (Inconsolatas LGC) and in VIM has a bold variant.
• I use mate-terminal, but in gnome-terminal I face the same issue.
• tput colors in the terminal emulator returns 256
• The things here all work as expected, so I guess VIM should be able to use bold in general.
• Bold font is displayed in other syntaxes, for example in the :help bold page. So VIM is capable of printing things in bold font. – Actually VIM does use bold font in other syntaxes like Python for example.

When I write like this:

Nothing is highlighted. I do not like to conceal stuff, so I deactivated that in the syntax file by setting a 0 where there was a 1:

if !exists("g:pandoc#syntax#conceal#use")
        if v:version < 703
    let g:pandoc#syntax#conceal#use = 0
        else
    let g:pandoc#syntax#conceal#use = 0
        endif
else
        " exists, but we cannot use it, disable anyway
        if v:version < 703
    let g:pandoc#syntax#conceal#use = 0
        endif
endif

But this is the only change I made to that file. How do I get the proper display of bold and emphasised?

• echom exists("g:pandoc#syntax#style#emphases") reveals that this variable is 1 so according to some code in the pandoc.vim file the highlighting should be active.

• :verbose :hi pandocEmphasis results in:

  pandocEmphasis xxx cleared

  I have no idea why.

[azrdev]

This seems to be related to the colorscheme. I'm using molokai and summerfruit256, both display bold+italics correctly when they are loaded before a file is opened (i.e. set in the vimrc, or using first :colorscheme $name before :edit $file). However, when I change the colorscheme after a pandoc markdown file has been opened, bold+italics vanish and don't come back, even when changing back to the "original" colorscheme.

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edit: reloading the filetype restores bold+italics, i.e. issuing :setf pandoc after loading the colorscheme. Got this idea from https://github.com/altercation/solarized/issues/102, probably it's a bug in vim.

Regarding your configuration @ZelphirKaltstahl, this line suggests that the conceal settings (that you patched out) also control use of real bold and italics.