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I would like to change the color of part of the command line, the stuff that's echo'd from vim scripts. I know it can be different since when your search hits the bottom it prints a message in red text.
I tried to echo vt100 color codes but they were escaped instead. For example, :echo "\033[0;32m some text" just prints those characters literally (except the escape, which is shown as ^[)
Ideally I'd like to find a solution that works in both vim-gtk as well as the terminal UI.
Try combination of :h echohl and :h echon:
:echohl Statement | echon "Hello " | echohl Identifier | echon "World" | echohl None | echon "!!!"
echohl will apply highlight group to the next echo, echon or echomsg, but if you want to apply highlighting to a part of your message you should use echon.
To have all your message in one color, use echo or echomsg:
:echohl Todo | echo "Hello World!!!" | echohl None
To define your own colors use :h :hi
:hi MyColor guifg=#00ff00 ctermfg=green
:echohl MyColor | echo "Hello World!!!" | echohl None
You can not change font of the messages, but I might be wrong.
function! EchoWarning(msg); echohl WarningMsg; echo "Warning"; echohl None; echon ': ' a:msg; endfunction; call EchoWarning('test') (copy-paste-remove semicolon-indent)
Apr 20 '21 at 11:40
:help echohlechoraw()function, like this:call echoraw("\033[38;5;124m")|echo "red text":h echoraw. Maybe:call echoraw("\x1b[41m") | echo " red text" | call echoraw(" \x1b[0m") | echo "unformmated text"isn't the way, is it?echonworks weirdly withechoraw()