too hard to get custom colors working about vim-indent-guides HOT 11 CLOSED

Are you setting those styles after your colorscheme declaration? If you set them before they may get reset by your colorscheme.

For example in your .vimrc:
colorscheme railscasts
let g:indent_guides_auto_colors = 0
let g:indent_guides_enable_on_vim_startup = 1
hi IndentGuidesOdd guibg=#121212
hi IndentGuidesEven guibg=#262626

If that doesn't work, try this instead:
autocmd VimEnter,Colorscheme * :hi IndentGuidesOdd guibg=#121212
autocmd VimEnter,Colorscheme * :hi IndentGuidesEven guibg=#262626

I do like the idea of adding these in as global options though, might implement that.

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Like I said, they are part of my colorscheme.

The problem is that your plugin clears the highlight colors when it gets loaded (line 8 of plugin/indent_guides.vim) after my vimrc has already loaded my colorscheme.

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See #7

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Ah I see, completely misread your first comment. Pull request looks reasonable, will test it out later today.

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This bug doesn't seem to affect MacVim for me. I don't mind the fix you've submitted, but it'd be nice if I could see the bug in action. What operating system and vim version are you using so I can try to replicate it?

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None of that should matter. Vim loads the vimrc before plugins. As it is, things would happen in this order:

hi IndentGuidesOdd guibg=#333333 " my colorscheme via vimrc
hi IndentGuidesOdd guibg=NONE    " autoload/indent_guides.vim via plugin/indent_guides.vim

Sure the VimEnter autocmd gets around this problem, but it's telling users "this plugin doesn't do things correctly, so here's how to hack around it" IMO.

And I've seen it in Vim 7.3 on OS X 10.6.6 and Ubuntu 10.10.

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No, I'm saying it works for me without the VimEnter autocmd. I put the custom highlights in my colorscheme file and it works both before and after your patch.

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Then your colorscheme is getting loaded after the plugin somehow (manually, autocmd).

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Regardless, I believe the code is an improvement, thanks for the pull request.

Just for completeness sake, can I get you to confirm that the patch works for you in Terminal Vim?

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It does.

And I'm guessing you set your colorscheme from gvimrc, which is loaded when the GUI starts (after plugins are loaded).

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Yep, that's exactly what's happening.

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