Macvim: "Cannot allocate color"

[tobireif]

Error since latest update:

Error detected while processing /Applications/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

[jas0nwhite]

I see this, too...

MacVim
Custom Version 7.4 (102)

OS X El Capitan
Version 10.11.5 Beta (15F28b)

[xparkm]

Seeing same issue. Started happening after I let MacVim autoupdate. I completely removed my .vim/, .vimrc and .gvimrc and still seeing the errors when starting MacVim with the mvim script.
No errors though if I start gvim with either
/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim -g -u NONE or
/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim -g -U NONE or
/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim -g -u NONE -U NONE

MacVim
Custom Version 7.4 (102)

VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled May 1 2016 03:47:06)
MacOS X (unix) version
Included patches: 1-1811

OS X El Capitan
Version 10.11.4

[zshen0x]

same problem here

mac os El Capitan 10.11.4
Error detected while processing /Applications/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

MacVim version 7.4 (102)

[0x62ash]

here too

PS. Also can't find ChangeLog...

[chdiza]

As a temporary workaround, try putting "let macvim_skip_colorscheme=1" in your vimrc, and making sure to not subsequently do colorscheme macvim or call any other colorscheme that uses MacVim's pseudo-colors mentioned in the error message.

Vim recently messed around with their color internals. I'm sure this will be fixed soon.

[splhack]

could you guys check https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/pull/276?

[tobireif]

Do the MacVim developers get the same error? It fills the console when MacVim is started via a command.

[jas0nwhite]

After a quick test, #276 seems to fix the issue.