On Thu, 04 May 2023 15:48:43 +0100 Bram Moolenaar <b...@moolenaar.net> wrote: > > For the value 7, ctermfg and ctermbg gives different colors. 'ctermfg=7' > > gives non-bold white, which is expected. But 'ctermbg=7' gives bold > > Black color. I'm assuming there is a if-conditional somewhere that's > > causing this distinction. If so, where is the conditional in the source > > code? If not, why is this happening? > > Color support depends on the terminal. Background and foreground > settings are often different, especially with older terminals and a low > number of colors supported. Sometimes the "bold" flag changes the color > between a darker and lighter color. You can find some information at > ":help highlight-ctermfg".
I shouldn't have said "bold black." That caused unnecessary confusion. The 'cterm=' value is NONE. I was just trying to say "darker" shade of black. > > P.S. I'm on Windows. I have a Linux laptop but haven't checked if this > > behavior is reproducible on that OS. I checked on my Linux laptop. These are the behaviors: highlight | Linux | Windows ------------+---------------+------------- ctermfg=0 | Black | Black ctermfg=7 | White | Black ctermfg=8 | Bright black | Bright black ctermfg=15 | Bright white | Bright white I run Windows Terminal on Windows and Suckless Terminal on Linux. The colors in my WT are set in a JSON file, with 16 keys. But the colors in my ST is a C array of strings, and the indices match with Vim's behavior of 'ctermfg=<index>', i.e., 'ctermfg=0' is black and 'ctermfg=8' brblack (that's how it's named in the comments in ST's source code [1]). The fun part is: I ssh'd into my Linux laptop from my Windows laptop. Meaning, I ran Vim on the Linux machine but in WT. There, 'ctermfg=7' still showed White, unlike the Vim on native Windows. Seems like WT does show 'ctermfg=7' as white, but the 'builtin_win32' term isn't supplying WT with proper whatchamacallit. (I'm probably wrong. This was just a guess.) [1]: https://github.com/3N4N/st/blob/5dc3385bfce0e25d04942d2e0d9af8f9ba94d70b/config.h#L96-L114 -- Enan -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/20230504232702.00004caf%40gmail.com.
