[SOLVED] RE: 7.1a.001 OSX colour scheme errors?
Hm... Maybe the console version checks the values of the guibg= guifg= settings even though it doesn't use them. Try dropping the attached file into your $VIMRUNTIME folder and see if it makes any difference. (See :help rgb.txt for an explanation of how Vim uses it. IIUC, on X11- and Windows-based systems, those colour names' RGB values can be obtained by querying the OS.) Ahh.. found it. 'make install' wasn't copying the 'rgb.txt' to $VIMRUNTIME. It seems that this is a bug because even on the linux machine, 'make install' doesn't copy rgb.txt either. However on the linux machine there are existing copies of rgb.txt in places like /etc/x11/rgb.txt (Ubuntu 7.04) which vim must have picked up which is why it works. I've never noticed this bug before since I always rsync the runtime after a build - which therefore places an rgb.txt into my $VIMRUNTIME. Because rsync is not suitable for the Vim 7.1a runtime, rgb.txt is missing from my $VIMRUNTIME hence the issue showed itself. I just did a build of 7.0.243 (svn#261) and it also fails with the inability to understand the colour scheme - because there is no rgb.txt copied to $VIMRUNTIME! So it looks like this might have been a long standing issue. Bram - can you change the Makefile to copy rgb.txt to $VIMRUNTIME for OSX builds? Thanks for the tip Tony!
Re: [SOLVED] RE: 7.1a.001 OSX colour scheme errors?
Michael Wookey wrote: Hm... Maybe the console version checks the values of the guibg= guifg= settings even though it doesn't use them. Try dropping the attached file into your $VIMRUNTIME folder and see if it makes any difference. (See :help rgb.txt for an explanation of how Vim uses it. IIUC, on X11- and Windows-based systems, those colour names' RGB values can be obtained by querying the OS.) Ahh.. found it. 'make install' wasn't copying the 'rgb.txt' to $VIMRUNTIME. It seems that this is a bug because even on the linux machine, 'make install' doesn't copy rgb.txt either. However on the linux machine there are existing copies of rgb.txt in places like /etc/x11/rgb.txt (Ubuntu 7.04) which vim must have picked up which is why it works. The help mentions /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ ; I found mine in /usr/share/X11 (on SuSE 10.2)... Apparently there is no single fixed location for that file. I wonder what the rule is? Any app using colour names should be able to find it after all. I've never noticed this bug before since I always rsync the runtime after a build - which therefore places an rgb.txt into my $VIMRUNTIME. Because rsync is not suitable for the Vim 7.1a runtime, rgb.txt is missing from my $VIMRUNTIME hence the issue showed itself. I just did a build of 7.0.243 (svn#261) and it also fails with the inability to understand the colour scheme - because there is no rgb.txt copied to $VIMRUNTIME! So it looks like this might have been a long standing issue. Bram - can you change the Makefile to copy rgb.txt to $VIMRUNTIME for OSX builds? Thanks for the tip Tony! Best regards, Tony. -- ... Logically incoherent, semantically incomprehensible, and legally ... impeccable!
RE: [SOLVED] RE: 7.1a.001 OSX colour scheme errors?
Michael Wookey wrote: Hm... Maybe the console version checks the values of the guibg= guifg= settings even though it doesn't use them. Try dropping the attached file into your $VIMRUNTIME folder and see if it makes any difference. (See :help rgb.txt for an explanation of how Vim uses it. IIUC, on X11- and Windows-based systems, those colour names' RGB values can be obtained by querying the OS.) Ahh.. found it. 'make install' wasn't copying the 'rgb.txt' to $VIMRUNTIME. It seems that this is a bug because even on the linux machine, 'make install' doesn't copy rgb.txt either. However on the linux machine there are existing copies of rgb.txt in places like /etc/x11/rgb.txt (Ubuntu 7.04) which vim must have picked up which is why it works. The help mentions /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ ; I found mine in /usr/share/X11 (on SuSE 10.2)... Apparently there is no single fixed location for that file. I wonder what the rule is? Any app using colour names should be able to find it after all. On Ubuntu 7.04, the following are all symlinked to /etc/X11/rgb.txt /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt On OSX, there is no rgb.txt on the system at all unless X11 is installed (which it is not by default). This is why it may be a good thing to include rgb.txt for the OSX vim builds.
