How to control the ALE virtual text color?

Question

The ALE virtual text for Error and Warning has the same color than the comment.

I would like to have a different colors to identify the ALE error more easily.

How to do that?

@user3342816, I posted a question and an answer to address the problem you addressed in the Vim chat. Let me know if I have understood your problem correctly. — Vivian De Smedt, May 10 at 19:50

Vivian De Smedt · Accepted Answer · 2023-05-11 07:54:14Z

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The color of the ALE virtual text are controlled by the following five highlighting groups:

With the following command:

highlight ALEVirtualTextError guifg=red

You get red error messages:

You could also, as suggested @romainl, link to existing highlighting group to get a more consistent look:

highlight link ALEVirtualTextError Error

answered May 10 at 19:41

Vivian De Smedt

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Two things: 1. I would do highlight link ALEVirtualTextError Error to insure consistency with the rest of the current colorscheme. 2. I would do it via a ColorScheme autocommand.
– romainl
May 11 at 7:10

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