Neovim @programming.dev 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

[solved] How to get rid of those stupid background and font color?

Update: Based on the discussion here and in other places I added the following (well, technically I did something different in my colorscheme, but in the end it translates to that)

vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, 'Normal', {})

This reverts the weird text and background colors to the previous behavior of ... not setting them.

With update 0.10 Neovim behavior changed regarding text color and background color.

I use a color theme that does not set those and previously this worked perfectly fine. Neovim simply used the font color defined in the terminal and had a transparent background.

Now the background is #14161b and the font color is #e0e2ea. Neither of the colors is configured ANYWHERE in my whole setup. Neither in the colorscheme, nor in my terminal configuration, nor in my Neovim configuration.

Is there a sane way to revert this to the old behavior? (i.e. use the font color configured in the terminal’s configuration and use transparent background.)

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:highlight Normal guifg=0 guibg=0 worked for me, at least when run interactively in a nvim -u NORC session.
- From the neovim 0.10 changelog:
  
  'termguicolors' is enabled by default when Nvim is able to determine that the host terminal emulator supports 24-bit color.
  
  So for me, i previously had vim.cmd.hi 'Normal ctermbg=none' as the method for disabling the background. But now, nvim was deciding to use gui colors for the terminal, and I was only setting terminal background to none.
  
  The options are:
  
  vim.cmd.hi 'Normal ctermbg=none guibg=none' (also none out the gui bg)
  
  vim.cmd.hi 'Normal bg=none' (flat unconditional bg none)
  
  vim.opt.termguicolors = false (just disable the now enabled by default function to go back to terminal colors)
- This looks fine when doing it manually, thanks. I wonder how to properly implementing this in my Lua-only setup without just wrapping it in vim.cmd.
  
  Its something like vim.nvim_api_set_hl
  
  I looked at material.nvim randomly, and they use vim.api.nvim_set_hl to set their colors. It seems that the equivalent of the above command is :lua vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "Normal", {}).

This is my neovim visual config:

    -- General colors
    vim.api.nvim_set_hl( 0, "Normal", { bg = "none" } )
    vim.api.nvim_set_hl( 0, "NormalFloat", { bg = "none" } )
    vim.api.nvim_set_hl( 0, "NormalNC", { bg = "none" } )
    vim.api.nvim_set_hl( 0, "LineNr", { bg = "none" } )
    vim.api.nvim_set_hl( 0, "SignColumn", { bg = "none" } )
    vim.api.nvim_set_hl( 0, "Folded", { bg = "#4b4b4b" } )
    vim.api.nvim_set_hl( 0, "FoldColumn", { bg = "none" } )
    vim.api.nvim_set_hl( 0, "Visual", { fg = "#000000", bg = "#de935f" } )
    vim.api.nvim_set_hl( 0, "NotifyBackground", { bg = "#000000" } )```

    -- Spell checking 
    vim.api.nvim_set_hl( 0, "SpellLocal", { fg = default } )
    vim.api.nvim_set_hl( 0, "SpellRare", { fg = default } )
    vim.api.nvim_set_hl( 0, "SpellCap", { fg = "#de935f", italic=true } )
    vim.api.nvim_set_hl( 0, "SpellBad", { fg = "#ff0000", italic=true } )
   
   -- Markdown
   vim.api.nvim_set_hl( 0, "htmlBold", { bold=true } )
   vim.api.nvim_set_hl( 0, "htmlItalic", { italic=true } )
   vim.api.nvim_set_hl( 0, "htmlStrike", { fg = "#ff0000", strikethrough=true } )

vim.api.nvim_set_hl( 0, "Normal", { bg = "none" } ) is probably what would work for you.

So I need to disable all the non-treesitter definitions first?

Do you know if there is a way to completely disable the built-in styling?
- I have treesitter as well and didn't do anything specific before adding these lines to my config. If you're looking to change "everything" without tweaking each highlight parameter individually you may be interested in this plugin.

vim.opt.background = false

vim.opt.guicfg = { background = "transparent", foreground = "#<idiots_color_hex>", }
- vim.opt.background = false
  
  Unfortunately no.
  
  E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: vim/_options.lua:0: Invalid option type 'b oolean' for 'background', should be string
  
  When setting to any string (a literal 'false', a hex color string with or without #, etc.) it prints
  
  E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: vim/_options.lua:0: E474: Invalid argument
  
  vim.opt.guicfg = { background = “transparent”, foreground = “#<idiots_color_hex>”, }
  
  Also no.
  
  E5113: Error while calling lua chunk: vim/_options.lua:0: Invalid option (not found): 'guicfg'
  
  oops thought we were talking about emacs this whole time. sorry ignore me and forget this ever happened.

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