Vi and Vim Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for people using the vi and Vim families of text editors. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
I am using vim 7.4.52 in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.My vim background color is darkblue.
I set this in .vimrc using set background darkblue
Now I want to set the background color with another color using hex code.
Is there any system to set this?
i.e.set background=#300A24(this is my default terminal color)
To set the background (and foreground) to some explicit color, you probably want to use a highlight command in your vimrc, such as
" plain text
hi Normal ctermfg=227 ctermbg=17
(assuming you are indeed in a terminal and not a gvim window).
The color codes '227' and '17' are interpreted in the terminal, and, sadly, they are not simple hex codes. To find which colors they correspond to in a given terminal, you can use this little script:
#!/usr/bin/bash
for i in {0..255} ; do
printf "\x1b[38;5;${i}mcolour${i} "
done
:h 'background' you can see that background can only have two values light or dark, the doc says Setting this option does not change the background color, it tells Vim what the background color looks like.. So using background is not meant to change the background color.
– statox♦
Sep 30 '16 at 11:12
:h 'background':hhl-Normal– Christian Brabandt Sep 30 '16 at 9:45