Question

This is mystery drives me crazy: I am trying to specify certain colors that are listed inside gVim 7.3 when running this script.

But when put in a .vim syntax file, gVim simply issues an error “Color name not recognized”. This happens even with simple colors like orange. Instead, it only recognizes a few colors like red, blue, yellow, darkyellow, darkgreen, black, etc.

Why does this happen and how to workaround this?

Answer 1

I ended up solving the problem by hard coding the offending color (orange) in the .vim file:

hi def MyOrange_color ctermfg=202 guifg=#ff5f00