[BUG] Vim 9.0 colorscheme support - no syntax highlighting

[richeney]

Vim has recently been updated to v9.0 in the image. The coloured syntax highlighting is not working for me and vim is monochrome.

Vim is recognising the filetypes correctly (:set filetype?). Looking at the colorscheme support (:colorscheme , CTRL+D), there is only desert in there.

I installed vim 9.0 into Ubuntu on WSL2 and colorscheme support was fine there.

Is there something that needs to be done to add the colorscheme support back in for the container?

[acederberg]

@richeney I was looking for a solution for exactly this! I would prefer to edit with syntax highlighting. Same symptoms - I have a colorscheme (gruvbox) and a filetype (ps1) yet no color.

[hima-gadupudi]

Currently CloudShell support supports default vim color scheme. If you want more colors in your shell, please follow the instructions below and install the color schemes you like.

Step-1: Create "colors" dir in your homedir. Change cwd to colos dir.

• cd .vim
• mkdir colors
• cd colors

Step-2: Perform wget on the color scheme that you are interested in. Showing an example for lunaperche colors cheme to install.

• wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vim/colorschemes/master/colors/lunaperche.vim

Start using installed color schemes in your vim.

[richeney]

I should have mentioned that I am comfortably using .vim file. (I created my own cloudshell colorscheme to match the standard colours, which I install using an Ansible role.)

The issue with the Cloud Shell image is that there is

1. only desert (and any user installed schemes)

   In vim if you type :colo it will show the current scheme; :colo and CTRL+D then it lists out the available schemes.

2. no syntax highlighting

WSL running jammy

• syntax highlighting ✅
• full set of schemes ✅

Cloud Shell in Windows Terminal

• syntax highlighting ❌
• full set of schemes ❌

Cloud Shell in the browser

• syntax highlighting ❌
• full set of schemes ❌

@hima-gadupudi, would you reopen the issue?

[nathanweeks]

Lack of syntax highlighting support in Azure Cloud Shell's vim is still an issue.