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Basically I have a long list of highlight groups that start with DevIcon (DevIconPng, DevIconJs etc.), they all come with their own ctermfg and guifg and I would like to change them to a single color.

Something like:

hi DevIcon* guifg=#123456 ctermfg=25

Is this possible, or if not, is there some workaround?

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You can use the getcompletion() function to resolve all highlights starting with a specific prefix. For example:

:echo getcompletion('DevIcon', 'highlight')
['DevIconPng', 'DevIconJs', ...]

You can then use that in a for loop to act on them.

:for hl in getcompletion('DevIcon', 'highlight') | execute 'hi '.hl.' guifg=#123456 ctermfg=25' | endfor

See :help :for and :help :execute, also :help expr-. for the string concatenation.

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  • Thank you so much. It works! Just a minor correction (I tried to edit myself, but couldn't since it's a small change), there should be a space after ... .hl.'guifg=... (should be ... .hl.' guifg=...).
    – Dimitar Dimitrov
    Dec 20, 2021 at 21:56
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    Sorry for the typo and thanks for spotting it! I have just fixed it myself now. Glad this worked for you!
    – filbranden ♦
    Dec 20, 2021 at 22:22

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