Colors not working in iTerm2 with Solarized Dark

[jondkinney]

Hi there,

I'm seeing about using this over vim-gitgutter as I hope it doesn't slow down console vim as much. However, the default color scheme is gray for add and changed, it is properly red for delete. When I pulled open vim-gitgutter and looked at the highlighting they're using (which does work by the way) it appears they are using the same ctermfg variables that you are (by default) and I tried manually specifying them too but to no avail. See screenshot below:

Thanks,
Jon

The above screenshot is the default vim-signify setup, with no customizations to colors.

The above screenshot is vim-gitgutter "working". The colors are funny because of what you have to do to setup Solarized Dark in iTerm with the color pallet, but I'm used to those colors now at least, and they're better than straight gray.

Let me know if you have any suggestions! Thanks again.

[mhinz]

Hey!

I double-checked with someone on IRC. He uses the exact same settings and experiences the same issue. But it worked for him when he used a iTerm2 theme other than dark-solarized.

Sadly I have no access to OSX. But I'll dig into it.

Thanks for reporting!

[jondkinney]

Thanks for taking a look! Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

[mhinz]

@Raimondi figured it out for us. 👍

Whatever this iTerm2 theme is doing, it works if you use a normal weight font.

let g:signify_sign_weight = 'none'

EDIT: I just learned from @Osse that you're probably using the font Monaco which doesn't feature a bold typeface.

[mhinz]

On another note.. I just looked at the screenshots again.. in case you want the signs to use the same background color than your line number column:

let g:signify_sign_color_inherit_from_linenr = 1

[jondkinney]

Thanks @mhinz! I can get the colors to show up on initial load now, nice. However, if I save the file they go back to gray. Odd. Would you like me to file a separate issue for that faulty save behavior?

Indeed, I am using Monaco. Actually, Monaco for Powerline (with the added glyphs).

[Raimondi]

Try with 'NONE' in capitals:

     let signify_sign_weight = 'NONE'

That's what I have and I don't see that issue with saving.

[jondkinney]

Yea, it actually works fine now. It just wasn't working in my .vimrc (which is version controlled), but in my normal projects it works great. Thanks!

[tridevgurung]

Check you contrast level. Make it to minimum. :)