Shihua Zeng

@zeertzjq Could you explain why shouldn't highlighted texts in winbar take `WinBar` as the default background? In most cases, if a user applies a highlight group to contents inside winbar,...

> Because it's the current behavior.. @zeertzjq For compatibility reason, yes. But the current behavior makes theming in winbar / statusline quite difficult if one wants to have highlighted chunks...

I will experiment with this patch and see if it works. Thanks!

The patch works amazingly well. init.vim: ```vim set winbar=%#WinBarHlTest#abcd%* set termguicolors hi WinBar guibg=#ff0000 hi WinBarNC guibg=#0000ff hi WinBarHlTest guifg=#00ff00 split vsplit ```  @zeertzjq Would you consider make it...

@zeertzjq Sorry for spamming, but could you let us know whether you see this change appropriate to be merged in `master` in future releases?

@zeertzjq Thanks for your reply! > there is no way to achieve the old behavior To achieve the old behavior one only needs to specify `bg` of the hlgroup to...

Also related to https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/26502

@echasnovski Thanks for your response. I see what you mean. It's "sort of" related -- if winbar highlights are merged by default / there is an easy way to sync...

> I can't reproduce this. Is it still an issue? What `packer` commit are you on? Hi! Thank you for your reply, I also find that with minimal config i.e....

It turns out `nvim-cmp` is the cause of the problem (don't know why). Close this issue.