Neovim with nice green colors like in the terminal

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I’ve just upgraded to fedora workstation 40 and I just realized, that neovim looks different. A pale black background with white font. Before the upgrade it had the same colors as my terminal: dark black background with green font.

I suppose a never version of neovim introduced some default color scheme.

On way to go about it would be to dive into neovim color schemes and adjust it to my liking. However, if there is a simple way to just go back to “use the same colors as in my terminal” I’d prefer that. Is there something simple I can do about it?

By the way, vim still looks the same.

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I’m not sure how it is with Neovim, but i use Vim and the colors there are influenced by the terminal colorscheme i’m using. Here are the Ptyxis terminal and the standard Gnome terminal side by side, each opening the same file in Vim:

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I will try installing Neovim for a bit later as well to try that out.

[Edit] tested with Neovim and it only showed the pale dark background with white text in each terminal

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Solved it: with :colorscheme vim the old look is restored.

In init.vim its: colorscheme vim.

More information here.

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