patch 8.1.1308: the Normal highlight is not defined when compiled with GUI commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/f90b6e03a983b62b66564fc449e32724d6456769 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Thu May 9 19:26:38 2019 +0200 patch 8.1.1308: the Normal highlight is not defined when compiled with GUI Problem: The Normal highlight is not defined when compiled with GUI. Solution: Always define Normal. (Christian Brabandt, closes https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/4072)

README_src.txt for version 8.1 of Vim: Vi IMproved.

The source archive contains the files needed to compile Vim on Unix systems.
It is packed for Unix systems (NL line separator).

For more information, see the README.txt file that comes with the runtime
archive (vim-8.1-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!