background color over ssh in HyperTerm

[weslleyaraujo]

Local

• VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Jun 16 2016 14:20:57)
• echo $TERM; // xterm-256color

SSH

• VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Jul 24 2015 02:23:23)
• echo $TERM; // xterm-256color

It seems like only the background color is slightly different over ssh then in my local vim..
any ideas what might be causing this?

[joshdick]

I'm assuming you're SSHing locally/into the same machine where Vim ran locally?

[weslleyaraujo]

well, in the second screenshot is vim running over my ssh connection... I might not really understand the question 😅

[joshdick]

Are you accessing the same computer in both cases (locally in the first case and by SSHing to itself in the second case?) Or are you SSHing to a different machine that could potentially have different configuration?

[weslleyaraujo]

I am SSHing to a different machine 👍

[joshdick]

It looks like the remote machine is using 256-color mode even though it's configured to use termguicolors if available.

Can you run vim --version | grep patches on both machines and paste the output here? Vim needs to be at least at patch 7.4.1799 for your pictured configuration to show the correct colors.

I suspect that your local machine (which is showing correct colors) may have a newer version of Vim than the remote one (which appears to be using 256-color mode.)

[weslleyaraujo]

Indeed, it looks like this is the issue:

Local

Included patches: 1-1910

SSH

Included patches: 1-207, 209-629

I will try updating vim over ssh 👍

[weslleyaraujo]

thanks for the support, working properly after upgrade :)

[joshdick]

You're welcome, glad to hear it!