How do I change the colour of the statusline of the currently focused window?

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I've seen colorschemes modify this. Is this some sort of highlight group? Or something else?

Martin Tournoij · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-03 11:13:02Z

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You can change it in your vimrc. The currently focused window is highlight group Statusline, other windows are StatuslineNC.

Example for terminal Vim:

hi StatusLine                  ctermfg=8     ctermbg=2     cterm=NONE
hi StatusLineNC                ctermfg=2     ctermbg=8     cterm=NONE

For the GUI, use guifg and guibg.

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answered Mar 3 '15 at 10:49

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gvim defaults for StatusLine are: term=bold,reverse cterm=bold,reverse gui=bold,reverse, and for StatusLineNC the values are term=reverse cterm=reverse gui=reverse – roblogic Mar 4 '15 at 2:24

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