Unusable diff highlight on NeogitStatus with the new default light colorscheme (nvim-0.10.0-nightly)

[Attila Süli]

Description

Using the default light colorscheme the diffview on the NeogitStatus view has a black or almost black bacground that makes the text in the diff context unreadable.

Neovim version

NVIM v0.10.0-dev-2465+ga7788c2e2
Build type: RelWithDebInfo
LuaJIT 2.1.1707061634

Operating system and version

macOS 14.2.1 but probably doesn't matter

Steps to reproduce

1. remove/comment the colorscheme setting
2. set the background option to light
3. open NeogitStatus
4. toggle the diffview for any unstaged/staged file

Expected behavior

The diff panel has a light background too.

Actual behavior

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Minimal config

-- comment or remove vim.cmd.colorscheme '???'
vim.opt.background = light

[Cameron]

^^ Thats how it looks for me with nvim nightly with the default colorscheme. Are you doing anything else that might be confounding things?

[Attila Süli]

Meanwhile I started to use a custom colorscheme and what I realised that the colorscheme plugin must be loaded before neogit otherwise the same thing happens. I think maybe because I never set the default theme explicitly and it was loaded after neogit too.

[Attila Süli]

Also I found this issue that might be related.

[Cameron]

Makes sense - we derive colors from your colorscheme in order to make it look good without requiring every colorscheme add a bunch of highlight groups, but that does mean that if neogit is loaded before your colorscheme, it might look off. I could probably add an autocmd to help with this, though.

[Cameron]

Oh, shoot, I already added an autocmd for ColorScheme events. Huh. It seems to work for me.

[Attila Süli]

I took another look on this and still not works with the default theme until I explicitly declare vim.cmd.colorscheme 'default'. Then I realised that it is because I load plugins eagerly. I tried to load neogit lazily with MiniDeps.later and it works as expected with the default theme.

So at the end it is the same for me. I need to make sure that the neogit plugin is loaded and set after the colorscheme. I have no idea why the colorscheme autocmd is not working for me.

[gegoune]

What's quite interesting here is that Neovim loads plugins before setting default colorscheme.

[Isaac Andrade]

@suliatis thanks for finding that out.
Lazy loading it like this solved my problem:

 -- Lazy plugin manager
 {
    "NeogitOrg/neogit",
    cmd = "Neogit", ------------ Only load Neogit when I absolutely need to
    -- ...
  },

[Cameron]

@suliatis thanks for finding that out.

Lazy loading it like this solved my problem:

 -- Lazy plugin manager

 {

    "NeogitOrg/neogit",

    cmd = "Neogit", ------------ Only load Neogit when I absolutely need to

    -- ...

  },

For what its worth, this is my setup too :)