Hi, i have trouble using the wal.vim lightline colorscheme

i add this in my .vimrc:

let g:lightline = {
			\ 'colorscheme': 'wal',
			\ }

and i get the following error:

Error detected while processing function lightline#update[3]..lightline#colorscheme[18]..lightline#highlight:
line   18:
E254: Cannot allocate color guibg=
Error detected while processing function lightline#update:
line    3:
E171: Missing :endif

If i change the content of wal.vim/autoload/lightline/colorscheme/wal.vim to the content of another random lightline colorscheme and replacing the word "wal" to the name of the other file, i don't get any problem

So, I understand that this plugin sets the syntax highlighting colors of vim based on the wallpaper, been using it for a long time and I love it. But is it possible to make a .vim file from it?

Hi,

I just discovered wal.vim and really like the results; however, I don't want a transparent background. This can usually be resolved with

" some colorscheme
colorscheme monokai
" disable transparent background
set background=dark
" disable for "kitty" terminal as well
let &t_ut=''

in $MYVIMRC. However, when I put colorscheme wal, it will not work. I still have set background=dark and let &t_ut='' below colorscheme wal (just as I did with monokai), but the background will always be transparent.

I use picom (previously compton) as composite manager to get this transparent background for my terminal; however, vim is the only program I'd prefer not to have transparency, and usually this works great. Only this plugin does not respect the other settings. Can you please tell me what I need to change in order to have a dark background for vim even when using colorscheme wal?

Thank you for your help :)

Hello!

I have set list lcs=trail:·,precedes:«,extends:»,tab:▸\ ,eol:¬ on my vimrc and for some reason when I switch to wal colorscheme the eol character stops showing. Can anyone help me with this?

The colorcolumn only showing when switching to wal is ok, it's a problem with the other colorscheme I was using.

Firstly I want to be clear that I've removed set termguicolors, so that unfortunately isn't it.

When I use the wal colour scheme after installing the plugin it seems the colour scheme isn't anything close to the theme colours. I have the following in my ~/.cache/wal/colors file:

#111010
#6E4C32
#725444
#8C5A32
#A06C50
#BF7955
#AF8771
#e1beac
#9d8578
#6E4C32
#725444
#8C5A32
#A06C50
#BF7955
#AF8771
#e1beac

Yet I end up with a white screen with black text, yellow line numbers and teal highlights...

I'm happy to help troubleshoot.

I just want to note that some colors end up being the same while using treesitter, the wrongly set colors are very slightly "more correct" when using the default theme rather than wal. Perhaps something to look into when treesitter support is officially released.

wal with treesitter highlight:

wal without treesitter highlight:

default with treesitter highlight:

EOL characters do not show up with this color scheme. They do show up on the terminal with other color schemes.

Neovim version: v0.2.2
Termite version: v13

Is the exclamation mark the correct syntax for .vimrc?

I have tried zsh and bash when running vim and receive the error below.

:! Using plug
             zsh:1: command not found: Using

shell returned 127

Press ENTER or type command to continue

I noticed that using the vim extension COC, floating windows would become illegible due to poor contrast. COC relies on Pmenu for vim and NormalFloat (if exists) for nvim.

Changing hi Pmenu ctermbg=8 ctermfg=7 to hi Pmenu ctermbg=NONE ctermfg=5

renders the floating window in a legible manner with similar contrast to using wal with vs code.

Tested working on nvim v0.4.4 and vim v8.2.850

Using my current wallpaper I get a dark text and grey background on this pop-up. Is there any way I can manually fix these colors?

There is an extension called Wal Theme for VSCode so can I also use this colorscheme int VSCode? Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask such a question.

when working with splits, it is hard to see where one window ends and a new one begins. It happens to me with any picture I use to generate colors. Is there an option to change it?

Hi! Cheers for a great plugin!

It seems to be missing the Conceal highlight-group, which may give undesirable results for people using the conceal-feature of vim.
I've circumvented this by setting the highlight-group to NONE.

hi Conceal ctermbg=NONE

Whenever I have colorscheme wal enabled I don't see bold and italics when using for example markdown. However with the default colorscheme I can see them fine.

Pair highlighting is not functioning correctly now that I'm using alacritty, pywal and neovim. It was working fine before when I was using gnome-terminal.

Cursor is displayed correctly here

I move right one character so that the cursor is on the (. However it looks like it's on the ). Note that there is a color change on the ( so you can "tell" but it feels like the cursor has moved to the )

Here was a similar problem with another vim theme: nordtheme/vim#71

It appears that set termguicolors breaks this theme. Unfortunately, it's a setting required for a number of plugins to work.

NVIM v0.4.3
iTerm2 3.3.12
macOS 10.15.5

Hello,

I used the :hi option in my .vimrc, but I wanted to have it verbose commands only, to not forget what some cryptic commands do. I wanted to use :highlight instead, and I can ;), but it's not being emphasised like :hi is.

Example:

I have pywal 3.3.0 installed.
I'm sorry if I write in the wrong place, but I don't know where should I post this :(

I've been trying out this plugin and I've noticed something odd. Previously my init.vim set termguicolors and didn't set t_Co to anything. This worked fine for all the colorschemes I was using at the time. For this colorscheme though it seems like I need to "set t_Co=256" and remove the line that sets termguicolors. What's going on with this plugin to require that? I'm hoping I can find some middle ground between this colorscheme and others so that my settings (t_Co and termguicolors) don't have to change based only on my colorscheme.

:set cursorline makes the Identifier elements to change it's color in the current line. Unfortunatly the new color matches the CursorLine ctermbg making it invisible.

Follows a screenshot to show what I mean.

allow user to add things like show underline for strings and italics for comments or for loops in the configuration.
i really want to use wal.vim with these features (italics,underline, bold and other things) but even with using highlight command i can't seem to do these.
a configuration support would be better nonetheless.

As mentioned in the comments of pull request #21 , since that change the background transparency is disabled when vim is open.

Tested on Arch Linux with neovim and gnome-terminal

In my terminal I wrote the command wal --theme base16-nord after which I got different color schemes between vim and my terminal. In my vim I have only installed wal.vim and set "colorscheme wal". Does anybody know how can I make that vim also uses that theme?

While searching, if only one pattern matched, this one will be hard to find. That's because IncSearch's bg is same with Normal, Only fg is different.

Here I reverse the color of IncSearch

function! MyHighlights() abort
    hi IncSearch ctermfg=0 ctermbg=3 cterm=None
endfunction

augroup MyColors
    autocmd!
    autocmd ColorScheme * call MyHighlights()
augroup END

colorscheme wal

Similar to #13.
It can be hard to see splits, as shown in the picture below. Is there an easy fix for this?

I just installed pywal and wal.vim on my laptop and spent half an hour trying to figure out why it wasn’t working.

Turns out you cannot set

set termguicolors

in your vimrc or init.vim file.

I just thought it would be a good idea to mention this in the readme, since it is somewhat painful to figure out, and termguicolors is a pretty default setting as far as I know.

can you add packer plugin manager it's better than the regular vim plug

I would really like to switch to MacVim but I don't know how to use wal.vim for MacVim. Is this possible? Cheers

Vim version: 8.2
Terminal Emulator: kitty

I really like to have the little line that :set cursorline gives me but when I use it with wal as colorscheme my line is highlighted and I cannot see my syntax color or any color specific thing on this line, it has just one color for the foreground and one for the background.

with wal:

without wal:

With my previous vim colorscheme, I set the background to be specifically non-transparent while my normal terminal background is. There doesn't seem to be a way to do this using the wal colorscheme?