Make virtual text background transparent

[sinharaksh1t]

Hello, I'm not sure if this is a property of the vim virtual text or the property of the plugin's virtual text highlight group or perhaps the property of the color scheme (tokyonight-night) that I'm using, but somehow the virtual text for git-blame that I see on my neovim is a bit odd. I have the vim cursorline enabled so when the virtual text appears for the blame, I see a darkened background for the text as seen in the screenshot below.

I have also tried using highlight_group = "Comment" but it makes no difference to this specific concern:

If you look at the lines with comments in the above 2 screenshots, this issue is not seen (the line that says Show which line your cursor is on). Is it possible to have a transparent background effect on the blame virtual text? Or do you have some other advice to deal with this?

I'm using the following options:

opts = {
    enabled = true,
    message_template = " <author> • <date> • <summary> • <<sha>>",
    date_format = "%b-%d-%Y", 
    virtual_text_column = 80, 
    message_when_not_committed = "Not committed yet",
    display_virtual_text = 1,
    highlight_group = "Question",
}

[gauthier-th]

You can do something like that to define a new highlight, with the CursorLine background and the Comment foreground, and use this highlight with git-blame:

    opts = function()
      local hl_cursor_line = vim.api.nvim_get_hl(0, { name = "CursorLine" })
      local hl_comment = vim.api.nvim_get_hl(0, { name = "Comment" })
      local hl_combined = vim.tbl_extend("force", hl_comment, { bg = hl_cursor_line.bg })
      vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "CursorLineBlame", hl_combined)
      return {
        enabled = true,
        highlight_group = "CursorLineBlame",
        -- etc.
      }
    end,

[sinharaksh1t]

@gauthier-th super cool! After looking at the code I can understand what you did and that's so smart yet so simple. I don't think I could've come up with that myself. Thanks for the answer!