[vim/vim] Colors changing upon first action? (Issue #16649)

shield29384

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Feb 15, 2025, 11:58:46 PM2/15/25

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shield29384 created an issue (vim/vim#16649)

Steps to reproduce

Upgrade vim (happens on artix and alpine)
run vim

Expected behaviour

My color scheme to not completely get overwritten.

Version of Vim

9.1.1065-1 (artix), 9.1.1105-r0 (alpine)

Environment

Operating systems: alpine and artix
terminal: foot
$TERM=foot
shell: bash and ash
vim installed through the distros' repositories

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1dbfe7b2-ea10-4db2-8edb-7c6d6c97327a

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λmolinae

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Feb 16, 2025, 12:01:16 AM2/16/25

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amolinae06 left a comment (vim/vim#16649)

I fixed this by switching to neovim

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λmolinae

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Feb 16, 2025, 12:06:03 AM2/16/25

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amolinae06 left a comment (vim/vim#16649)

please share your configuration to assist you further

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ud1w

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Feb 16, 2025, 1:26:53 AM2/16/25

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ud1w left a comment (vim/vim#16649)

same issue here

Artix
vim 9.1.1065-1
bash 5.2.037-1
XTerm 397
$SHELL = xterm-256color

normal colorscheme loads initially:

default.png (view on web)

but then changes after pressing any key or scrolling:

changed.png (view on web)

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shield29384

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Feb 16, 2025, 1:32:41 AM2/16/25

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shield29384 left a comment (vim/vim#16649)

Few things to note:
I downgraded vim and its working fine
As shown in the video even running --clean produces this issue, however I found that running vim as vim -u NONEXISTENTFILE fixes the colors from changing, but of course, you don't have a config...

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Christian Brabandt

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Feb 16, 2025, 3:27:59 AM2/16/25

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chrisbra left a comment (vim/vim#16649)

Upgrade vim (happens on artix and alpine)
run vim

What kind of reproduction steps is this please?

Vim enables termguicolors automatically, if it detects the terminal supports this. However, due to the async nature of querying the terminal, this is noticable and causes
I'll revert this behaviour for now.

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Christian Brabandt

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Feb 16, 2025, 3:36:04 AM2/16/25

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Closed #16649 as completed via 27822a0.

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ynn

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Feb 22, 2025, 3:35:46 AM2/22/25

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your-diary left a comment (vim/vim#16649)

Having exactly the same issue after upgrading to 9.1.1100 (macOS).

9.1.1043 (Arch Linux) doesn't have this problem.

It seems guifg, guibg, etc. are suddenly started being respected instead of ctermfg, ctermbg, etc.
Manually setting set notermguicolors solved the problem.

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Dave Eddy

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Feb 25, 2025, 2:58:03 PM2/25/25

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bahamas10 left a comment (vim/vim#16649)

Having exactly the same issue after upgrading to 9.1.1100 (macOS).

9.1.1043 (Arch Linux) doesn't have this problem.

It seems guifg, guibg, etc. are suddenly started being respected instead of ctermfg, ctermbg, etc. Manually setting set notermguicolors solved the problem.

same issue here - fixed it on macos with set notermguicolors as well, thank you!