Some text are invisible (same as background color)

[tolgaek]

So because the 9th color in the palette is Base03 which is the same as the background, so now in a lot of my log outputs or test results and so on, that color is used..

The issue is that I can change that color in the palette but then my vim background color is that same color because of the fact that when you do background=dark in VIM, it seems to use that 9th color in the palette..

Any ideas on how I can handle both cases?

[aruhier]

Hello,
Could you join a screenshot please ?

[tolgaek]

Below is the output with hidden text

Now in the exact same screen if I change 9th color of the palette, i get this;

[aruhier]

This is weird, it never happened on my vim...

Have you tried with a clean gnome-terminal profile ?

[sigurdga]

I can confirm that the colors are the same. I have seen this when running javascript tests, and I change to the light background when it is a problem. But I'm sure we can get into the same situation for a light background as well.

I think this has to be changed where the colors are set, in dircolors.

[blueyed]

Well, BASE03 gets used both for the background and the 9th entry in the PALETTE.

PALETTE = [BASE02, RED, GREEN, YELLOW, BLUE, MAGENTA, CYAN, BASE2,
           BASE03, ORANGE, BASE01, BASE00, BASE0, VIOLET, BASE1, BASE3]
SCHEMES = {'dark': {'background_color': BASE03,
                    'foreground_color': BASE0,
                    'bold_color': BASE1},

For me it's btw "gray" (from Zsh's $fg array) which is also mapped to "black".

@Anthony25 it's not about Vim here, but gnome-terminal.

It's also a problem with Terminator [1], which has a built-in scheme "Solarized black" (when using the Solarized palette also).

1: http://gnometerminator.blogspot.de/p/introduction.html

[fearphage]

I can confirm this and I'm seeing it in the same use case (running unit tests). What'd you change the color to for the second screenshot?

[sigurdga]

This seems we will have problems like this with coloured outputs using solarized. altercation/solarized#220 describes several tools outputting grey and giving problems like this. Solarized may need a fix that will be hard to implement because of the use grey background. In the mentioned issue, you can find links to a fork that may work for you.

[aruhier]

Fixed with ff1e664, thanks to @absynce.

[armyofzin]

Was the intent to change the background color? My background is all washed out now. i.e. BASE01.

[aruhier]

I didn't see the difference that's why I pulled this commit because it seems to fix the invisible text without changing anything. If you prefered the old color, I revert the commit.

[sigurdga]

The old color is the correct color. The invisible output is a bug between the other libs. (Solarized has too few colors for the other tools… or something like that)