How to change theme of Vim status line? about tmuxline.vim HOT 7 CLOSED

tmux's statusline colors are messed up because for some reason vim's statusline colors are messed up. The question is: why are vim's statusline colors messy?

A wild guess: your $TERM is not recognized by vim, because you start vim in the first pane with vim (which starts your brew-installed vim), but in the second pane you start vim with vi which starts OSX's pre-installed out-dated vim (which doesn't understand tmux's $TERM).

Could you try to reproduce vim's pinkish color outside of tmux?
Also, could you try removing the :silent! from this line https://github.com/Integralist/Fresh-Install/blob/master/Shell/vim/vundle.vim#L20 and then try to reproduce. Hopefully this would give some error message

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@edkolev when I run :!which vim from within Vim (and inside Vim inside tmux) I can see /usr/bin/vim (system Vim) but doing which vim from outside Vim I see /usr/local/bin/vim which is what I expected/want.

I've just done cd /usr/bin/ && sudo mv vim vim-7.3 and now when I run :!which vim from inside either Vim or Vim inside tmux it correctly shows /usr/local/bin/vim but I still get that ugly pink theme.

That's after I removed the :silent! flag from my vim script (so looks like that doesn't produce any helpful errors)

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The pink theme is probably airline's tomorrow theme. Could you confirm this by running :AirlineTheme? (this will tell you which airline theme is active)

I suspect vim's colorscheme is incorrect (for some reason), hance airline's theme is incorrect (airline's tomorrow theme extracts its colors from vim's colorscheme), hence tmux's theme is incorrect (tmuxline extracts its colors from airline).

Is this reproducible if you start vim with its full path /usr/local/bin/vim?

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When I run the vim command outside of tmux and then :AirlineTheme I get tomorrow displayed.

That's the same when I run Vim from within tmux as well.

If I run Vim using the full path I get the exact same thing.

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So for some reason vim's colorscheme is incorrect. You can try different vim colorschemes, and different terminal emulators (iTerm2, Terminal.app), and maybe different multiplexers (tmux, screen) to pinpoint what's causing this misbehaviour.

Alternatively, you can create a .conf file for tmux and disable airline-tmuxline extension:

1. start vim in tmux, make sure your colors are correct
2. run :TmuxlineSnapshot ~/.tmuxline.conf to create a snapshot of the current tmux statusline colors
3. set in tmux.conf source-file ~/.tmuxline.conf
4. set in your vimrc let g:airline#extensions#tmuxline#enabled = 0 so vim doesn't set tmux's colors on startup

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One additional piece of information has come to light...

Running echo $TERM inside of tmux results in screen where as when run within Vim outside of tmux it results in xterm-256color

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Setting set -g default-terminal "screen-256color" within my tmux.conf did the trick

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