Color of line numbers and whitespaces are too bright about melange-nvim HOT 8 CLOSED

Wow, it works now, thank you so much

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The old LineNr had a terrible contrast ratio. It's unlikely I'll change it back.

Whitespace is more complicated tho. I made it brighter for a couple of reasons:

• I wanted it to be brighter than Visual, so you could still see whitespace when selecting stuff. That's very important for me since I use virtualedit=block.
• I started making better use of listchars, by:
  • Not setting space
  • Setting multispace (to see spaces used for alignment)
  • Setting leadmultispace to be different from multispace

You can see how that looks like in the README preview (left buffer). That's also why I don't use indent guides. Most of the time, leadmultispace is enough.

I assume you're using indent-blankline.nvim? I don't know the language/markup in your screenshot, but it looks weird since it's highlighting every column as an indent column instead of every 2 or 4. Maybe shiftwidth isn't configured properly in that buffer?

The most actionable thing right now is to highlight the indent guides using a darker color, since they're not real characters in the buffer.

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I guess no plan to allow overwriting colors either?

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I added the IndentBlanklineChar highlight group in #54

I guess no plan to allow overwriting colors either?

You can use the Lua API for that. In this case, if you want to darken Whitespace, you could link Whitespace to IndentBlanklineChar:

vim.cmd.colorscheme 'melange'

local id = vim.api.nvim_create_augroup('HighlightOverrides', {})
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd('BufEnter', {
    group = id,
    pattern = '*',
    callback = function()
        vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, 'Whitespace', { link = 'IndentBlanklineChar' })
    end,
})

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That... almost did the trick. Some whitespace are with new color (the brighter ones) and some are with the old color.
When I place the cursor inside the context of the method some whitespaces change the color from new to old one (check the whitespace right before "//").
Not sure how to make all of them the old color all the time.

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That's the intended behavior (I think?). See hl-IndentBlanklineContextChar

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I just wanted all the whitespaces to be the old color. Btw feel free to close this ticket if this is not something you are interested in doing, I realise this is just a personal preference of mine.

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Yeah, sorry. I misunderstood the question, and also misunderstood how indent-blankline worked. When the docs say:

Default: takes guifg color from 'Whitespace'

The really mean it. These highlight groups are not linked, but manually extended using synID* functions (wtf?) Anyways, I think they do that to set nocombine. 3c430b6 should probably highlight all the indent-related whitespace the same.

Let me know if that works.

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