Questions tagged [highlight]
Adding highlighting to the document other than syntax highlighting (such as hlsearch or :match)
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How can I highlight the current cursor position (not just the line)?
When I search a text file for a word from within vim, it will highlight all matches for the word by changing their background color -- to olive green on my terminal; your color may vary. I am looking ...
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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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Weird highlighting when navigating vimrc
So I recently downloaded Jellybeans.vim, and it was working fine until today when I opened .vimrc and to add something to the bottom of the file I pressed G , this happened:
Then I pressed gg to go ...
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IDE-like inline diff highlighting in Vim
I enjoy using Vim and like it better than IDEs on most points. One common IDE feature that I miss, though, is inline diff highlighting:
In this example changed lines are highlighted in blue and ...
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Is it possible to use syn match dynamically
I know that syn match can work with the regular expression to do some custom highlight settings.
I'm thinking if it can work dynamically.
For example, I'm doing a c++ project and I want to highlight ...
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Lose hlsearch when using with vim-fuzzysearch
I'm using this plugin: vim-fuzzysearch.
When I have long file (I need to press ctrl-f/ctrl-b to scroll)
Steps to produces:
1. Turn on `hlsearch` + vim-fuzzysearch and search for a keyword
2. ...
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Don't highlight entire line for highlight group
I'd like to change the highlight colors for the QuickFixLine highlight group (something like highlight QuickFixLine term=reverse ctermbg=DarkGrey). Sidenote: the QuickFixLine highlight group is the ...
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Matching parenthesis and such not being highlighted in strings since VIM 8.0 on Ubuntu 18.04, how do I get this highlighting back?
When I place the cursor on the parenthesis of the below line, the two parenthesis get highlighted in a cyan color. When I place the cursor on the curly braces, however, no highlighting happens.
// ...
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How to highlight matching string while typing a regular expression?
While I enter a regular expression on the vim command line, I would like to see what matches the partial expression I already wrote.
For example, while writing the command
:%s/regular
all words ...
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How to completely hide the seperator between windows?
I managed to hide the background of the seperator between open windows by using:
hi VertSplit term=NONE cterm=NONE gui=NONE guifg=NONE guibg=NONE ctermfg=NONE ctermbg=NONE
However the fillchars ...
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Vim highlighting random indentations
As seen from the image, Vim decides to highlight those indentations for no reason. I've tried :noh and :set nolist (:set list seems to make it go away, but I don't want indentation marks) from a ...
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search highlighting only in the current buffer
I know that I can run a search in vim using /. I prefer having search highlighting turned on, but if I have a two splits with different files open, and I search for a term in one, they get highlighted ...
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change fold sign character
I know per my question remove trailing dashes in foldtext that I can remove the trailing dashes from collapsed fold lines. When a fold is 'open', the sign column has pipe characters '|'. I looked at ...
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Highlighting arbitrary text
When I'm writing, I often have 2-3 buffers open. My main body of text in the middle, and then supporting materials on the left and right. I often read a paragraph from one of the supporting buffers ...
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Highlight range for ex command
I'm trying to add more ex commands to my vim repertoire and I was wondering if there is setting or plugin that would allow to highlight the lines addressed by the command, if a range is give e.g., if ...
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Highlight important words/lines permanently
I'm working on a plain text file. I'd like to highlight important words or lines so that they stand out. How can I change background color and/or text color for selected text or word under cursor?
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neovim hlsearch not working
I'm testing neovim and for many thing it is working way faster than vim (I use many plugins ~80, and I can really tell the difference with neovim). All the same config files worked out of the box, but ...
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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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ALE Error and warning highlighting gets disabled when termguicolors is enabled
I have the ALE extension installed, and would like it to highlight errors and warnings, however when :set termguicolors is enabled, the
Here's a screenshot of the problem:
set termguicolors
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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 to set syntax keywords dynamically
I'm trying to highlight the keywords for my c++ project.
So what I've done is to create a file here: ~/.vim/after/syntax/cpp.vim and put some custom configuration into it.
For example, putting the ...
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How to highlight class name of c++
I'm trying to configure the highlight to highlight keywords of my C++ project.
Here is the content of ~/.vim/syntax/cpp.vim:
syn match cCustomParen "?=(" contains=cParen,cCppParen
syn match ...
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Register CursorMoved on certain key press and disable when move to new line
I'm trying to write a function that will highlight searches performed with the f and F keys.
I currently have a solution here thanks to @filbranden, but would like to further improve it to only ...
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`.vimrc` unsuccessful in setting highlight style
1) To underline misspelled words, I can execute the following in an open buffer:
:hi clear SpellBad
:hi SpellBad cterm=underline
:set spell
2) However, if I write in my .vimrc the first two lines, ...
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How can I still see underscores with cursorline?
Background and problem
I've just discovered how to make the cursor a vertical line in insert mode. This works well with cursorline; even with the thinner cursor, I can still easily find my position.
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How to disable margin (+/!)?
Currently I installed vim addons for python.
http://fisadev.github.io/fisa-vim-config/
However, I don't like the +/-/! on the margin. Does anyone know how to disable all of them?
Thanks,
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Fade Rows Far From Center
I am currently using a vertical monitor for my vim setup. I absolutely love being able to view 100+ lines of code at once. My eyes can scan longer and more complicated blocks of code.
However, I have ...
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Automatically highlight all occurrences of the selected text in visual mode
In text editors like sublime text, atom and notepad++, when you select a word, all matches are highlighted automatically as shown in the following screenshot of my atom editor:
I use v and select ...
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How do you remap keys in :history or :highlight?
I use Colemak hnei for nav in normal mode, but my keys default to hjkl when when I'm viewing :history and :highlight. How do I remap these keys?
My guess is that the program may be switching to more....
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How to use vim as an error checker?
I'm transitioning to vim and I love the feature other IDEs provided in which when I wrote something with a syntax error it accuses me through a red underlining.
I don't know what this type of feature ...
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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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Highlighting screen positions, or `:set colorcolumn` only for the 2 bottom and top lines visible on the screen
The option colorcolumn is really useful. I would like a similar result to what it yields but only for the two lines that are at the top and the bottom of the screen (not the document, but the screen). ...
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How to make vim text bold?
In order to have my vim text always bold, I found this config in stackoverflow:
:hi MyGroup cterm=bold
:match MyGroup /./
But somehow, it has messed up search highlighting. It is no longer ...
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Highlight specific line numbers in the gutter
Can you target a spesific line number in the gutter? Let's say I want line 20 in the gutter te be red for some reason. Possible? Like CursorLineNr, but defining the line number yourself. In short I'm ...
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Highlighting tabs, trailing space and non-breaking space by colors, not chars
Currently I highlight these with:
set listchars=tab:ā¶ā,trail:ā£,nbsp:ā½
But the drawback is I cannot usefully copy-paste from the terminal where vim resides to another one: e.g. suppose I'm editing a ...
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Can I use a different color for the selected match than for other matches
In the screencast below I searched statusline and then cycle through the results with n.
Is it possible to highlight the selected match with a different color than the other matches, instead of ...
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How to know which highlighting group is used for the background of a word?
Vim highlights the background of certain words (e.g. when doing spellchecking) in a way that I would like to change (because the background and the word itself are almost of the same color, which ...
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Why doesn't undercurl use underline in my terminal?
:help undercurl states:
"undercurl" is a curly underline. When "undercurl" is not possible then "underline" is used. In general "undercurl" and "strikethrough" is only available in the GUI.
But if ...
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Get immediate feedback about a search string with no matches in vim
Is there a way to immediately get feedback about a search string with no matches?
At the moment I have to press Enter first to get Pattern not found. I'd like if the background (of the search line or ...
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Change working directory color in NERDTree
Is there any ways to change the font color and background of the working directory as seen in Sublime text?
Sublime Text
Neovim with NERDTree
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Fold: highlight folded text only
I expected the folded text highlighted as below picture (ignore red rectangle):
Like above picture, I'd like to have something to recognize that red region of a fold and highlight it only, donot have ...
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Fold: Different highlight style for fold of each filetype
Extend of this question of fold: Fold: foldtext() for each filetype
We have fold for each filetype now but each fold need different highlight style of color, because highlight is global I tried to ...
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Automatic highlighting non ASCII character when loading 'vim' filetype buffer
I want to include a new highlight group and autocommand that will automatically highlight non-ASCIIs as soon as either a vimscript or a Python file is loaded in buffer (i.e. any file with filetype '...
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Vim highlighting in textfiles
I am a relative new user to vim. I started using it along with a newly set up arch installation.
So when I created different netctl profiles in vim, it highlighted the parameters like shown in the ...
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How to show illegal whitespace (such as unbreakable space) in source code?
I sometimes type (by accident) shift-space, inserting unbreakable space into code. With c++, I get this:
error: stray ā\302ā in program
error: stray ā\240ā in program
while in other formats (like ...
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Highlighting only in a certain file
At every opening of a special file I want vim to automatically highlight all the lines, where the 7th character is a 1. How do I do that?
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How to set CursorLine highlight color for the gruvbox colorscheme
When I use the colorscheme gruvbox (installed with vim-plug), it overrides my configuration of the Cursorline highlight, eg
set cursorline
hi CursorLine cterm=NONE ctermbg=black
with the same color ...
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How to highlight/match (but not search!) the word under cursor
I am searching some pattern, navigate between search results, and at the same time I want some other pattern to be highlighted. For example, I jump between invocations of some function in my project, ...
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Does `hi link XXX Normal` provide any benefits?
Does hi link XXX Normal provide any benefits? For example the syntax file included by default syntax/vim.vim includes the line:
hi def link vimUserFunc Normal
This often conflicts with CursorLine ...
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Priority highlighting
In my code, something like
#include <whatever>
is highlighted: #include (which belongs to the group 'cInclude') in pink; and <whatever> (belonging to the group 'cIncluded') in red.
(Edit:...
