Lost italics

[pmatulis]

I'm using Alacritty as my terminal emulator, Tmux as my terminal multiplexor, Neovim as my editor, and Nert Font JetBrainsMono as my font. In the beginning, when first testing Kanagawa, I had italics for comments. Somewhere along the line I lost them. I've disabled the treesitter Neovim plugin as I thought that it might be interfering, but without success. I have the following in my Kanagawa config:

require("kanagawa").setup({
  compile = true,
  undercurl = false,
  commentStyle = { italic = true },
  functionStyle = {},
  keywordStyle = { italic = true},
  statementStyle = { bold = true },
  typeStyle = {},
  transparent = false,
  dimInactive = false,
  terminalColors = true,
  colors = {
      palette = {
          sumiInk3 = "#2A2A37",     -- background (less dark)
          waveBlue1 = "#43242B",    -- visual selection (maroon)
          surimiOrange = "#DDDDDD"  -- values, booleans
      },
  },
  overrides = function(colors)
      return {}
  end,
  background = {
      dark = "wave",
      light = "lotus"
  },
})

Can you advise what should I be looking at?

[terje]

Hi there,
I had the same problem as you but the tips in this issue fixed it for me:

• Check that the output of echo -e "\e[3mItalic" shows in italic. This takes NeoVim out of the equation to make sure that your terminal is set up right
• Check that the output of echo $TERM is xterm-256color. My tmux config set this value to screen-256color and this made italic text not work. set -g default-terminal "xterm-256color" in your .tmux.conf.
• Check that your alacritty config haven't overwritten the italic font definition with a regular font variant. You don't have to set your own italic style but if you do, make sure it's actually italic.

Hope something of this helps!