Questions tagged [highlight]
Adding highlighting to the document other than syntax highlighting (such as hlsearch or :match)
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How to perform an action on search matches?
How can I visually select all text highlighted by a search in order to run a command on it? And if it's possible, how can I capitalize the selection?
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incsearch not working as expected
So I have the following example text:
##1##
many text
and lines
##z##
##1##
many text
and lines
##z##
##2##
more text
##z##
And after doing :set incsearch, and running :g/^##1##\n.*/+,/##z##/- (which ...
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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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Persistent tag highlights when changing between buffers
I've put following code in my vimrc.
function ExtraHighlights()
let list = taglist('.*')
for item in list
if item.kind == 's' || item.kind == 't' || item.kind == 'u' || item.kind == 'g'...
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Vimdiff : highlight line numbers differently
I use relative line numbers thanx to the following settings in my vimrc:
set number
set relativenumber
Since I don't want to wrap lines in diff mode, it's sometimes hard to tell which line include a ...
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No highlighting for replacement text using conceal
I just discovered Vim's conceal feature.
I've added the following to ~/.vim/after/syntax/haskell.vim:
syntax match haskOperator "->" conceal cchar=→
syntax match haskOperator "<-" conceal ...
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How do I turn of the 'haze' when highlighting black?
I have put this in my .vimrc
highlight IgnoreGroup ctermbg=Black ctermfg=White
let m = matchadd("IgnoreGroup", '\\todo{.\{-}}')
This gives me the following result:
Note that the \todo{stuff} ...
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Highlight group in `.vim/after/ftplugin` not highlighting patterns
While highlight group in .vimrc highlights patterns just fine, highlight groups in .vim/after/ftplugin folder does not seem to do anything. Is it normal?
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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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Change match highlights on CmdlineLeave
Vim uses two different highlight groups for matching patterns while searching in the command-line with / or :substitute for example.
The incsearch group for the match under the cursor
The search ...
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Defining a color to be the same color of comments
I'm using the indentLine plugin to display line indents with a continuos vertical line, and I'd like to set the color of that line to the same color of my comments.
To get the foreground color of my ...
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Unwanted highlights on page scroll
I have a pretty similar problem as in this issue with some exceptions.
Basically, after I scroll page down or up Ctrl+d / Ctrl+u all non-empty lines get highlight from the end of the line to the ...
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How to highlight multiple words that are unrelated
I need to highlight multiple words that are unrelated, eg:
aaa bbb
ccc ddd
I would like to highlight aaa and ddd, and keep cursor at both of those words,
so when I try to change the word for example ...
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Is it possible to make “???” a keyword that can be highlighted?
Is it possible to make ??? (3 question marks) a keyword, and highlight it?
I have tried the following in a syntax file. Other strings on the line are highlighted, but not ???. \?\?\? does not work ...
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How to enable search highlight when I use `normal! n` in a function?
I've set hlsearch.
When I type :normal! n, the target text is highlighted.
But when I put normal! n in a function(Search) and call that function(:call Search()), the highlight doesn't take effect? ...
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Highlight group for signature help
I'm using Vim (v. 8.2) with YouCompleteMe as a code completion engine. I welcome the addition of signature help, but I'm not happy with the default colors:
Does anyone know what highlight group is ...
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Highlight results of :grep while in quickfix window
To my .vimrc I added a hook which automates entering the quickfix after :grep processing:
autocmd QuickFixCmdPost [^l]* nested cwindow 20
Another thing I care about but can't achieve is automation ...
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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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Can I apply individual colours from one highlight in another one?
I have an auto command that changes some color scheme values so I can avoid forking them when all I need is small changes:
augroup FixColorSchemes
autocmd!
autocmd ColorScheme *
\ ...
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How to disable highlighting for custom group
I'm using a tip from this page of the vim wiki to highlight trailing spaces when I'm not in insert mode :
highlight ExtraWhitespace ctermbg=red
match ExtraWhitespace /\s\+$/
autocmd BufWinEnter * ...
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Highlight search phrase within quickfix window listing
One can change the search color of search terms with the Search highlight scheme.
Similarly one can change the color of a line in the quickfix window with QuickFixLine.
However, how does one change ...
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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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Enable incremental search and highlight while typing a search term?
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....
