Questions tagged [color]
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Have colors when using :make
When I'm using :make, the output doesn't have any color. The text is only white.
But when I'm using :!make for a C project or :Cargo run for a rust project ( I also use rust.vim ) , there are colors ...
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Why are Vim 8 :term colours with gvim different from those in plain vim :term or bash?
Vim 8 :term colours in gvim happen to be different from those seen in plain vim :term or bash.
How come? How does one obtain the same bash colours in gvim?
EDIT: I have been reading a bit more about ...
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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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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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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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Using an iTerm color scheme inside a Vim :terminal window
My normal terminal color scheme is set via a color preset in iTerm. When I open a terminal window in Vim (:terminal) that color scheme doesn't get applied, presumably because Vim has no knowledge of ...
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Highlight arbitrary rectangular regions
Is it possible to highlight specific and arbitrary rectangles in a buffer? I want to implement a code scope highlight that groups code into a hierarchy of boxes. here is my mockup that I made:
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Color questions for macOS
I just got a mac and have been trying to setup Vim 8 on the built-in terminal. I am mostly having some difficulties with colors.
1) After set number, how do I change the line number colors?
I tried
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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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Vim background colors render incorrectly
When I scroll inside vim white spaces seem to get highlighted. Also the background color is the one I use to signal the 80 column while it should be the same color as the terminal as it can be seen in ...
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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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How to extend the background color to the whole screen in a shell command's output?
I used to have a similar problem with the main screen (IIRC), like here:
and I solved it by setting set set t_ut=, as was suggested in this question's accepted answer. But now I spotted another ...
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Set Background for Lines after EOF
I am trying to get transparency on DWM to work by setting the background color in vim to NONE.
highlight Normal guibg=NONE ctermbg=NONE
This works fine unless I have files that contain not enough ...
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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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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 ...