[neovim] Background color not displaying in neovim

[patrl]

When using the dracula theme in neovim, the terminal background color appears to override the theme background color. This is illustrated below, with urxvt on the left and st on the right, showing that this issue is independent of the terminal emulator used.

Here is my init.vim (note that I used vim-plug to install the dracula theme):

call plug#begin()
        Plug 'dracula/vim'
        Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline'
call plug#end()

colorscheme dracula

[ghost]

I believe this to be solved it with this #19.

[dukebarman]

@patrl, try to add set termguicolors in ~/.config/nvim/init.vim

It works for me in iTerm2

[NikhilMTomy]

I also have this problem on xterm. But the neovim background is not that of the terminal either.

[Drowze]

Can confirm

(plus, setting termguicolors simply messes with the colors...)
Tested on gnome-terminal, urxvt, terminator
Ubuntu 16.04
NVIM v0.2.2
Dracula v1.2.7
Plus I am using plug-vim.

[dsifford]

@dukebarman Is correct. Issue boils down to the termguicolors option not pairing well with how we currently are setting highlights.

I'll be working on a more hardened fix for this over the next several days as time allows.

(Just a warning: Things might get a worse before they get better, but just bear with me)

[benknoble]

Related to #59 perhaps ?

[dsifford]

Should be fixed now. Let me know otherwise.

[stdlo]

Issue still exists for me.
urxvt v9.22
dracula/vim v1.4.0
nvim v0.2.2

Shougo/dein.vim for a plugin manager.

[dsifford]

@loganbickmore Do you have set termguicolors enabled?

[stdlo]

@dsifford With set termguicolors enabled vim lights up green. Without it enabled it appears like the original issues screenshot.

[dsifford]

@loganbickmore see #60

@pdaniell were you ever able to figure out what caused that green color?

[benknoble]

I'm convinced the 'green screen' effect is caused by setting termguicolors in a term (like macOS Terminal) that doesn't support truecolor.

[benknoble]

Could also be related to the dracula_colorterm variable as laid out in the help file and over at #65

[dsifford]

@benknoble That's also what I suspected. I don't believe urxvt has truecolor support.

@loganbickmore can you try unsetting termguicolors and then before loading dracula set let g:dracula_colorterm = 0 and see if that helps?

[stdlo]

@dsifford g:dracula_colorterm = 0 resolved the issue. Thank you for you're help, sorry to start adding comments after the issue was closed.

[dsifford]

@loganbickmore No worries. Glad we could get it sorted out 👍