Re: [vim/vim] Only set fgcolor while hlgroups is used on statusline if no bgcolor is set (Issue #20869)

h-east left a comment (vim/vim#20869)

This is how it is meant to work.  In the statusline the highlight group
replaces the attribute, it is not combined with StatusLine, so a group without
a background has none and the one of Normal shows through.  The `%#HLname#`
item in `:help 'statusline'` says "The same highlighting is used", not that it
is merged.

Combining instead would also pull in the other attributes of StatusLine, bold
and reverse for instance, and would change the appearance for everyone using a
foreground-only group today.

Set the background explicitly if you want it.  Deriving it from StatusLine is a
common idiom in color schemes:

```vim
exe 'hi User1 guifg=green guibg='
      .. synIDattr(synIDtrans(hlID('StatusLine')), 'bg#', 'gui')
```

Closing as by design.

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