Questions tagged [color]
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color/colorscheme
As you can see in both the vimrc.plug and vim.rc files they both seem to be working in terms of gruvbox. I have syntax on, but when I type Vim into terminal and start typing or open a specific file ...
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<HOME> key is unwanted set to "toggle upercase"
During insert mode my Home key is set to toggle case of character which is very annoying. I tried this command to search for any settings, but failed to solve the problem. I would like to set it to go ...
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How do I restore normal colorscheme?
Upon launching vim, if I enter colorscheme the output is default. If I enter colorscheme default the colorscheme changes. If I change the colorscheme from the default to any other colorscheme and then ...
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Why does this syntax rule match numbers in identifiers and how can I fix it?
I wrote a rather simple syntax file, but digits in identifiers get colored:
syn match xNumber '\d\+'
In i1 the 1 gets the "numbers" color.
Maybe identifiers need to be matched with higher ...
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Fedora 35: Suddenly vi screen started looking funny!
A few days ago, vi started loading files and applying some strange highlighting. I have done nothing (on purpose anyway) to edit colors (don't know how).
Can anyone explain how to fix this? Default ...
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Is it possible to specify a background color that is "added" in a particular matching region?
If I define a syntax highlighting region (or a match or keyword, for that matter), is it possible to specify or alter the background color of anything in that region, including things contained in it?
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Colorizing old school VI
I'm working in a old environment, installing VIM is not an option and neither other similar packages. My only editor available is the old school VI, version 3.10. So, I wanted to ask you guys, do you ...
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Configure neovim to use means other than color for syntax highlighting
I'm trying to write a .vimrc that's portable between vim and nvim (neovim) and directs the editor to use means other than colors to distinguish syntactic entities.
In vim, the following .vimrc will ...
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how to change color of 'normal' markdown text only in dark version of colorscheme
I'm trying to do this https://stackoverflow.com/a/61454601/3089106 but for the main text, not for comments.
This is primarily for markdown files but changing that color globally would be fine. Unlike ...
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Vim only colours background of area with text in it [duplicate]
If I'm using kitty terminal the $TERM environment variable is xterm-kitty, which supports truecolour. I have set termguicolors in my .vimrc.
When the terminal is in dark mode, and I enter set ...
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:terminal, change prompt color or background color
When I run :terminal, I have a combination of blue color of the prompt over a grey background and I can barely read what is written, see attached image.
What options can I add to :ter in such a way I ...
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How to change foreground color of character underneath cursor?
I've tried setting the highlight rules below but it does not work. Whatever color I choose, the color of the character stays the same.
I'm using xfce4-terminal on Linux and Terminal.app on Mac OSX.
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How to adjust text color for Texinfo
I am working with Vim 7.4 on Linux (Xubuntu 14.04). I am editing Texinfo files and I would like to adjust the color of ordinary text. The colors of other items (@ macros, comments, etc.) are all okay. ...
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Adjust syntax highlighting of git/mercurial patch within a popup
I have added the following line to my vimrc which allows me to press <leader>p to show the mercurial log with patch for the current line in a popup window.
nmap <silent><Leader>p :...
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E254: Cannot allocate color SlateBlue
I just freshly installed vim via brew install vim... and presently have version 8.2.3450.
In ~/.vimrc I have syntax on, and when I run vim, I get:
E254: Cannot allocate color SlateBlue
If I delete / ...
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Problem setting cursor colors in vimrc: suppress the `-ne` that is written to my xterm on exit
Following the vim manual and also some threads on this site, I can set the color of my cursor to orange in insert mode and red otherwise, with the following lines in my .vimrc file.
" use an ...
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Background color for listchars chars
I use the solution from this question to display tabs with litlle ⸱ characters. It works but they appear on a lighter gray background than the dark gray background I am using.
It is quite distracting ...
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Color a call append(line)
I have cowfortune showing up at startup and I want to color it. How do I color the call append() line? I saw some things with signs but I didn't really get it to work.
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Colours in (g)vim output window
I've started learning Rust, and have been setting up my Vim workflow to use it. I'm still relatively new to Vim, and mostly what I've written in it is PHP for a website. Now that I'm working with a ...
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Default syntax groups use colors >=16 [closed]
I have few quetion about color scheme and terminals... The web is plenty of posts about it but I still does not understand the following:
After a fresh install of (g)vim on arch, I did a
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How to color VIM ":!{cmd}" output?
I'm trying to get the same setup as the guy in this video, so that when :!pytest % gets called, the output is colored.
I've tried with various vanilla colorschemes, with no luck...
I'm using Neovim, ...
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How to set the background color for colored items in the statusline to the background color of the statusline?
I am experimenting with creating a statusline and have opted for coloring different parts of it.
The problem is that while the item's foreground color is changed, the background is black and doensn't ...
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Shell syntax, how to patch bad highlight groups
The neovim syntax for shell scripts doesn't check if keywords like echo, done, exit etc.. are surrounded by blank spaces or if they're part of a bigger Word.
This results in the following bad ...
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prevent changing background color on pressing tab and arrow keys
when I press the tab key or top arrow when I am in the first line, bottom arrow when I am in the last line, right arrow when I am at the end of the line and left arrow when I am at the start of the ...
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If background is not transparent in ViM, I see the background color of the terminal, which is different
This problem might be a terminal problem, but maybe some of you managed to solve it.
I've been using ViM with the default colorscheme, which has a transparent background, so I see the background color ...
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Vim ignores color 255, as if it doesn't support the 256 ones
Update: it works, if I set the main bg color (white) as ctermbg=231 (it was 015). So it seems that color values in Vim syntax highlight settings shouldn't be mixed: if one uses color codes from the 16 ...
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How do I change vim cursor color
I use vim version 8.0.707.
My cursor blinks but make the character disappear half the time.
I'd like it to behave as usual: display the negative color.
How can I do that please?
Thanks in advance :)
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Is there some way to retrieve/redisplay :echon output?
I want to create a multi-color enabled debug-print command. As far I know, the only way to print multi-color messages in Vim is:
echohl Macro | echon "Hi" | echohl Statement |
\ echon &...
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Are opening and closing double quotes expected to be of different color in a bash script?
I've just noticed, after years using Vim, that the two double quote characters opening and closing a string in a bash script have different colors, which I can verify by simply writing var="var&...
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Remove bottom and right borders (gaps) and customize scrollbar in Athena GVim
I found many webpages [1][2][3] explaining how to color the
gaps from GTK GVim, but how can I do the same for Athena GVim? In the left picture, gap should also be black, not gray.
What about the ...
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Highlighting color strings with correspondent color
When tweaking color themes, one thing I really miss is a highlighting that
would color the color strings with the corresponding color.
Maybe this sounds confusing? An example: here is a fragment of a ...
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Color themes listed as available in Vim not changing upon :colo [themename] command
I am trying to install themes using V8+ Vim (8.2) on a Windows 10 OS. I first tried following the standard instructions listed on the Dracula theme site here. Unfortunately, the naming conventions for ...
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How to show list characters with red color?
I have set listchar in .vimrc as below:
set list lcs=tab:→\ ,space:·,nbsp:␣,eol:¶
How can I display these characters →\ , · , ␣ , ¶ with red color?
Here is my failed attempt:
hi! set list lcs=tab:→\...
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How to change the command line status message color and font?
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 ...
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AnsiEsc plugin error
When executing vim, after installing AnsiEsc, I get the following error:
Error detected while processing BufRead Auto commands for "*":
E117: Unknown function: AnsiEsc#BufReadPost
Do you know how to ...
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Can't see tag "<>" braces due to highlight color same as braces in Windows terminal
I'm new to Vim and am having an issue with highlight color of matching braces in Vim.
if I type: <html> and my cursor is at the one of the <> greater/less-than brace then I can't see the ...
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How to set colors for vim warnings about existing swap files
Is it possible to set color for the warning message "Swap file XXX already exists! ..."? I couldn't figure out which highlight group it belongs to.
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Setting coloring in :term on urxvt
I use the URxvt terminal emulator, and echo $TERM returns rxvt-unicode-256color.
In vim, if I run :echo $TERM, I get the same result.
However, if I open a terminal window with :term and enter echo $...
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Using Nvim-Qt colors with regular Vim
I have been using nvim-qt and I like it.
However I want to switch to regular nvim, but like other users I have had trouble with it.
So then I thought maybe I will just use plain vim. The issue is ...
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ctermbg and ctermfg are backwards or incorrect for certain highlighting groups
I am currently attempting to create a custom colorscheme for vim by using ctermfg and ctermbg values, and checking what the colorscheme looks like with the highlight test file provided by Vim.
What I ...
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gVim 8.2, display problem
I have a weird problem with VIM, both at work and at home (2 different computers):
When I open a text in VIM, sometimes it is displaying it correctly, sometime not (I'd say 1 every 3 it works fine, ...
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Vim color black isn't black
I have the following text in my ~/.vimrc:
syntax on
colorscheme koehler
highlight ErrorMsg ctermbg=Red ctermfg=Black
however the error messages show like this:
The error message is gray on red, not ...
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Is it possible to reverse an existing highlighting group?
Is it possible to automatically create a highlight which is the reverse of an existing highlight? Example highlight Search guifg=Black guibg=Yellow, becomes highlight CustomHighlight guifg=Yellow ...
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Vim is highlights everything after EOL in yellow upon scrolling
My vimrc: http://ge0rges.com/vimrc
My environment is: Ubuntu 18.04 in WSL on Windows 10.
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled Jun 06 2019 17:31:41)
Included patches: 1-1453
Modified by pkg-...
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How does g:terminal_ansi_colors affect the :terminal colors?
:term usually looks ugly in most colorschemes I've tried. At least on Windows, with light themes, these colors do not work and end up in an unreadable shade of yellow against my light background.
I ...
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Gradient color background for visual selections
In this video from Bisqwit, the selected line is colored by a gradient according to column number. Image is below. He implemented the gradient in a custom terminal emulator. Is there any way to ...
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Getting an RGB color from highlight group
In putting together and addon for blender to integrate neovim.
Where I'm at with it, github colo imported to blender text editor from nvim_gtk
One component is grabbing the current colorscheme of a ...
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Apply terminal colors in gui?
I am on neovim with Oni. vim-netranger plugin uses terminal colors in this format to highlight things. It does work in terminal with neovim , but not in a gui app.
I am looking for a way to replace ...
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Where can I find color settings used by Vim and NeoVim?
I've been using dotfiles created by other people to setup Vim. Recently I decided to create my own config and investigate what's NeoVim about. I'm using default OSX Terminal.app with zsh shell (I've ...
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Change background color of git conflict marker sections
If git is performing a 3-way merge and has a conflict it can't resolve, it marks up that area of the file like this:
No unresolvable conflicts here
<<<<<<< HEAD
xyz
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