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I am using altercation's vim-solarized plugin to set my default colorscheme and have set my xterm to use solarized colors as well.
When I try to run :TOhtml on a buffer, say on $MYVIMRC, the resulting html file has different colors than it is supposed to have.
How can I get the "right" colors/colorscheme for the html file?
You can't get the "right" colors in a terminal emulator because the colors used for highlighting are defined as "red" or "bright cyan" which are then user-defined at the terminal emulator level and could mean anything, especially in the case of Solarized where "bright cyan" is actually a freaking grey.
You can get the "right" colors in GVim, though, because syntax highlighting is done with fixed values.
:TOhtml command will create a html file then with colors looking different than the solarized ones I see in vim. Is there a way to create a html file with the solarized colors?
Aug 23, 2015 at 11:45
:TOhtml can't accurately use the user-defined color in the generated HTML. The only way to get an output that looks like what you have in Vim is to run :TOhtml in GVim/MacVim.
I use terminal Vim on Cygwin Mintty with both using solarized scheme on Windows. I've got the same problem and found a workaround which is not perfect but might be suitable for you.
My goal was to copy syntax highlighted code to E-Mails and documents. For this to achieve, I don't have to generate HTML. I configured Mintty terminal to copy rich text:
As I use the solarized dark scheme in Vim, I paste the content to other applications and remove the background color there. The result looks fine:
VIM with solarized dark scheme:
Pasted to MS Word with background color removed manually:
Unfortunately, with this solution, you lose the ability to Vim-select the text. This brings problems with splits and line numbers. But you can close all splits and remove the line numbers using :set nonumber.
vim, the colors are completely off (neither standard vim colors nor solarized vim colors). If I instead runvim -u NONE -N(not sourced my vimrc but still nocompatible enabled), the colors are standard vim colors. So indeed solarized colors in vim only seem to work for me when I set the appropriate xterm colors as well. Do you know why I might have this issue?