I'm having a trouble with Neovim colors when using my vimrc file as Neovim's init.vim.
Here's the expected look, how it looks in Vim:
And here is how it looks in Neovim:
I guess that's because of the :set background? shows:
background=dark although it's obviously light and it's set as set background=light in the init.vim file.
The background setting actually doesn't control the background colors but more the foregrounds colors. It dates from a time (that includes the present for some terminal) where the background couldn't be controlled.
It is a way to tell the colorscheme or Vim in general what kind of color should be selected to offer a good contrast with the background (i.e. select light foreground color if the background is dark, select dark foreground color if the background is `light).
Remark: about the reason for which the sequence of the background option setting and the colorscheme settings is important is the following line of the default colorscheme:
set bg& It resets the background option to its default which is dark.
The reason was that the order of options in the init.vim file is important.
Originally it was:
set background=light colorscheme default I changed it to
colorscheme default set background=light And it started to look correctly. Don't know if that's specified in the docs.
$VIMRUNTIME/colors/default.vim as a set bg& that reset the background option to its default (which is dark). dark or light).