Very recently, my syntax highlighting stopped working in Kakoune. Colorschemes are being applied, but source code is plain white text.
I’ve reinstalled by building from source. I have no kakrc, because I removed it to figure this out.
My kak runtime stuff is under /usr/local/share/kak
Sourcing /usr/local/share/kak/kakrc gives an error: “def : command ‘colorscheme’ already defined”
I don’t know how to debug this. Can anyone provide some tips? I am running the latest “master” branch.
Do you have a ~/.config/kak/autoload directory? If you do, does in contain a symlink to /usr/local/share/kak/rc?
This was the solution, thank you. I had an empty directory at ~/.config/kak/autoload
For future readers, there is a section on this in the FILES section of man kak
A version of this problem popped up on IRC today. I pointed that person to this post, and symlinking autoload helped.
They mentioned there was no output of warning in the debug buffer. Perhaps Kakoune could detect a misconfiguration here?
Part of the problem is that it’s not a mis-configuration, it’s an intended and legal configuration, although not one that most users would want.
The code that reads files from the autoload directory is in the system-wide kakrc file, and there’s apparently a few ways to test whether a directory is empty in shell. It might be handy to log a warning to the debug buffer (echo -debug Warning: autoload directory $1 is empty), which would hopefully help new users figure out what’s going on, without annoying anyone who sets their system up this way deliberately (although that’s never guaranteed).
I encourage you to try it, and if you can get it working, make a PR.