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Launching MacVim gives E254 cannot allocate color

When I launch vim I do not have issues, but when I launch MacVim using mvim from the command line I get the following error:

$ mvim .vimrc 
$ Error detected while processing /usr/local/Cellar/macvim/7.4-102/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/colors/macvim.vim:
line   54:
E254: Cannot allocate color MacSelectedTextBackgroundColor
line  109:
E254: Cannot allocate color MacTextColor
E254: Cannot allocate color MacTextBackgroundColor

I installed MacVim using homebrew. Homebrew 0.9.9

My OS is El Capitan 10.11.4

I am setting up my new laptop so all I have installed so far: xcode, command line tools, and macvim.

This question is similar, but none of the answers work for me. I tried iTerm2. I originally did not have a .vimrc and launching it from the dock rather than the command line still throws the error.

Solution

  • It's a bug that it has been already fixed. So, you have to wait for the next release.

    You can see the issue and the pull request on GitHub.