Cursor Background Color on MatchParen invisible in dark themes

[jirgn]

Hey, first of all - thanks a lot for the effort building this great color theme, i really like the idea and of course the looks. I stumbled upon an issue with cursor colors when using one of the following 'dark' themes

• zenbones
• tokyobones

If the cursor is on a parenthesis or bracket and matchparen is active, the the cursor position is barely noticeable. This in my opinion is confusing and misleeading. I would asume that the cursor background stayes the same (like in the light mode theme).

reproducing

1. open a file with parenthesis or brackets in buffer content
2. activate matchparen (:MatchParen)
3. move cursor over bracket char

expect

cursor is noticeable (has the same bg-color) matching cursor is highlighted

current

cursor is not nodiceable matching cursor is highlighted

[mcchrish]

Do you use any matchparen plugin, like matchup etc? Also do you have a custom guicursor settings?

[jirgn]

Hey thank you for the fast response. Normally I use matchit.vim. But I reproduced the Problem when having disabled all my Plugins. And I'm not aware of any custom settings for guicursor.

# :PlugStatus
Finished. 0 error(s).
[==]

- zenbones.nvim: OK
- lush.nvim: OK

:set guicursor?

So In my opinion no - should be all clean on my side - problem still exists

[mcchrish]

To confirm, this only happens with dark tokyonight and zenbones? Are the other dark colorschemes working fine? Also what terminal emulator are you using?

[jirgn]

Hey,

I use Alacritty as Terminal with a Zenbones Dark Color Set on a ArchLinux OS. The Terminal seems to be a good call. I tried to reproduce within gTerm, and there were no problems

What I figured out when playing around with the alacritty config is, that the cursor definition in Alacritty Zenbones Dark are used. I do not know why these terminal colors are used but when I change my alacritty colors to

  cursor:
    cursor: '#66A5AD'
    text:   '#1C1917'
    # cursor: '#1C1917'
    # text: '#C4CACF'

It works fine.

[mcchrish]

Do you think it's related to shipwright transformer? https://github.com/rktjmp/shipwright.nvim/issues/8

I don't use alacritty, so I'm not sure. If it fixes it, we can submit a fix.

[jirgn]

I would say yes this is related. If I get i right the color definitions are inverse here.

cursor
     cursor: '$cursor_bg'  # changed this to bg assuming the var holds the color of the cursors surface (square)
     text: '$cursor_fg'  # changed this to fg assuming the var holds the cursor's text color

[jirgn]

i opened a PR https://github.com/rktjmp/shipwright.nvim/pull/9

[mcchrish]

The configs are now updated, do you still see the issue?

[jirgn]

works perfectly now - thanks