Is there any way to change the popup menu color?

Question

Is there any way to change the background color of the popup menu in gvim? The default background color is pink, which is a little weird to me.

Answer 1

You can use the following highlight groups:

• Pmenu – normal item
• PmenuSel – selected item
• PmenuSbar – scrollbar
• PmenuThumb – thumb of the scrollbar

For example to set a grey background:

:highlight Pmenu ctermbg=gray guibg=gray

For Gvim you only need the guibg part (ctermbg is used when Vim is run in a terminal), but I find it useful to always define both.

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I didn't know this either; I used :help i_ctrl-x to find the help page for that key, then followed the ins-completion link mentioned in the entry, and searched for highlight with /highlight ;-)

Another way to find this information would have been to use :help highlight-groups, which lists all default highlight groups.