Neovim Whitespace (listchars) color

[Vintodrimmer]

I suppose it's more of a feature request than a bug.

Neovim has introduced special 'Whitespace' highlight group, so all the affected characters are the color of Nontext if I'm not mistaken, as is mentioned here.

Could you incorporate the group colors into your theme, please?

Without them (or some workaround), these characters are almost impossible to see (as shown in the highlighted line in the screenshot).

Here is the relevant part from the :help listchars:

hl-NonText highlighting will be used for "eol", "extends" and "precedes". hl-Whitespace for "nbsp", "space", "tab" and "trail".

I use st as a terminal emulator and Neovim 0.2.1

NVIM v0.2.1
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.0.5
Compilation: /usr/lib/ccache/bin/cc -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe  -g -Wconversion -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 -DNVIM_MSGPACK_HAS_FLOAT32 -DNVIM_UNIBI_HAS_VAR_FROM -O2 -DNDEBUG -DMIN_LOG_LEVEL=3 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstrict-prototypes -std=gnu99 -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wvla -fstack-protector-strong -fdiagnostics-color=auto -DINCLUDE_GENERATED_DECLARATIONS -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/builddir/neovim-0.2.1/build/config -I/builddir/neovim-0.2.1/src -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -I/builddir/neovim-0.2.1/build/src/nvim/auto -I/builddir/neovim-0.2.1/build/include
Compiled by void-buildslave@build

Features: +acl +iconv -jemalloc +tui 
See ":help feature-compile"

   system vimrc file: "$VIM/sysinit.vim"
  fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/nvim"

Run :checkhealth for more info

[joshdick]

The documentation in that PR does say By default, +|hl-Whitespace| is linked to |hl-NonText|.

In onedark.vim, NonText and SpecialKey highlights actually use the same color, so the theme appears to still be rendering as intended even with NeoVim's Whitespace change.

You can override NonText, or add a new highlight for Whitespace, in your ~/.vimrc by using onedark.vim's customization mechanism.