Adding highlighting to the document other than syntax highlighting (such as hlsearch or :match)
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Highlighting a search capture group
By :set hl, the search result of a / expression is highlighted, for example:
And if one wants to replace one substring distinguished by its surrounding, one can do so elegantly using regex capture ...
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CursorLineNR highlight not working
I have a vim configuration file (~/.vimrc) with the following settings:
colo delek
syntax on
highlight clear CursorLine
highlight clear CursorLineNR
highlight clear LineNR
highlight LineNR cterm=...
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How to apply a custom highlight file?
I'm playing with Vim highlight, so I made the following (syntax.vim):
hi Comment ctermfg=DarkGray
hi LineNR ctermfg=DarkGray
hi CursorLineNR ctermfg=Red
hi String ctermfg=Gray
hi PreProc ctermfg=...
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How to change Operator highlight color in Vim?
I just switched to iTerm2 on macOS and found some of its options go to Vim as well. That's the case for fonts, I was able to select a Vim font that I like from iTerm options.
It seems iTerm color ...
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How to highlight multiple lines?
When review code, it would be convenient if we can highlight multiple lines at the same time, instead of only current cursor line is highlighted.
:set cursorline only highlight current line.
:...
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Syntax - Match word based on a previous match
I want to highlight all words that have been matched in another syntax region. Using something similar to regex capture groups, for example given a file:
{highlightme} asda asasd asd asd as ...
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How to highlight function like (req, res, next) -> in javascript/coffee
gvim 1-26/windows10
I'm trying some .coffee files and meet a lot with this kind of syntax (req, res, next) ->. As I know it's a call back function and I can't get it highlighted.
The reason is ...
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Color Stuff Inside Braces in a Desired Way With a Trigger
Suppose I have \frac{stuff}{matter} somewhere in a file I am editing. And I want to change stuff and matter. So at the trigger of a command, I'd like to see the following take place:
stuff gets ...
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hidden highlight selection when search with * or # is active [duplicate]
Using the * key searches for the word under the cursor.
Use # to do the same, backwards.
When search is active, all instances of word appears highlighted. I want to know if is possible to remove the ...
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How to show the highlight color instead of cursor' white color when highlight color and cursor overlapped?
Highlight all matched characters with red color.
hi! ChineseMark ctermbg=red guibg=red
match ChineseMark /[\u3000\uff01-\uff5e]/
Add the two lines in my .vimrc.
Here is the test.txt file.
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How to color the selected character with red instead of changing it?
In my .vimrc,f5 was binded with CheckMark function to change all 。 into ..
function! CheckMark()
if search('。')
let s:line=search('。')
execute s:line . "s/。/\./g"
endif ...
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How can I change the colors used for highlight search matches?
When I do a search within VIM the found text is highlighted in yellow with white letters. For my eyes it is impossible to distinguish the text highlighted. I am looking for the way to change those ...
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Why are two <cr> characters required when executing this highlighting toggle command?
I use this keymapping toggle to highlighting on and off, but when I originally found it, the author did not list two <cr> at the end of the command. I found that if I didn't have two <cr> ...
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Enable %-key jumping/highlighting for backticks (`) and single-quotes (') in M4 files
Background
When working on .c and .h files, I have a couple options turned on, namely:
filetype plugin on
filetype indent on
autocmd BufEnter *.c setlocal tabstop=8 shiftwidth=8 softtabstop=8 ...
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Normal highlight group changes cursor color in vim in xterm
I set the following highlight:
:hi Normal ctermfg=250 ctermbg=235
The text is a nice light gray on dark gray, as intended. But the cursor has become dark blue. I'd love to have it just be the ...
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Highlight lines above cursor
I was looking for a way to highlight lines above the cursor line to mark them as done, whatever that means in the context of what I'm doing.
I came up with this match Comment /\_.*\%#.*/ or, in words,...
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Turn off syntax hilighting for TODO items
I want to turn off the syntax highlighting for TODO items, like TODO and FIXME. How can I achieve this?
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How can I show colorful characters by tagging as I do using termcolor.colored in python?
I can print the colorful outputs in terminal using this:
from termcolor import colored
print(colored("this is blue", "blue") + " and " + colored("this is red and underlined.", "red", atts=['...
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Relative line number colouring
I have relative numbering turned on. There's no immediate way of telling which direction I want to move, however. For example, sometimes I see line number "7" and move 7j (7 lines down) when I really ...
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Linux gvim visual mode cursor - avoid newline selection
When I enter in visual-mode and I want to delete a block of text before the newline character (only visible if selected/highlighted in visual-mode), I accidentally always select the newline character ...
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How to set value of cterm to both bold and underline?
Currently, my vimrc has
set cursorline
hi CursorLine cterm=underline ctermbg=none ctermfg=none
I want to be set cterm to both underline and bold
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How do you clear highlighting if you edit text?
I find it obnoxious that highlight search stays on until you manually turn it off. If I have edited some text after searching, 99% of the time that means I found what I was looking for and I don't ...
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Ignore pattern inside of a region
:h region bring me very little help. I need to exclude a pattern inside a region that should be ignored for example: don't apply match/highlight begin from # to the end of line $
I try to ignore #.*$ ...
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Highlight exported Go functions
Golang uses naming convention to separate functions visibility: exported (public) starts with a capital letter, non-exported (private) with a lower letter. I would like to highlight exported functions,...
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Vim highlights closed folds
Vim has this odd behaviour: when I launch it in a terminal emulator under X,
it highlights closed folds, but when I launch it in console, closed folds'
representation is more sensible: they are just ...
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How do you get two `match`es at the same time to work? [duplicate]
I have two match lines in my vimrc. they work when they are used by themselves but when i try to uncomment both i don't get any matching behavior:
" highlight spaces used for indenting
match Visual /^...
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Echo highlighted warning in one line
I found from the vim's manual that we can echo colored text by the following command:
:echohl WarningMsg | echo "Warnging" | echohl None | echo ":Some warning"
which will highlight the string ...
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Why does termguicolor disable spell checking in vim latex?
When I set termguicolor it disables spell checking highlighting in Vim, and when I disable termiguicolor, highlighting starts to work again but I get ugly colors. How could I make them work properly?
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Highlighting specific words automatically with different background
I am using Vim 8.0.
I often pepper my Haskell code with undefined stub functions to be filled in later. Note that undefined is a valid keyword in Haskell
add :: Int -> Int -> Int
add a b = ...
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How to color comments after a defined column
I once was given these materials to enable this helper for vim to show kind of a vertical line in order to help enforce PEP8 rules on line length limit at column 80:
" Long lines highlighting.
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Is there any way to change the popup menu color?
Is there any way to change the background color of the popup menu in gvim? The default background color is pink, which is a little weird to me.
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How to change the cursor line higlighting only for one window (namely the quickfix one)?
I want the cursor line in the quickfix window to be more distinguishable, than in other windows.
Initially I thought that there has to be some different highlight group, it seemly turned out to be ...
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Syntax highlighting depending on whether whole line is commented
Is it possible to have vim highlight folds differently depending on whether every line in a fold is only comments or whitespace? In that case, how?
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Can I show a color from its hex value in *any* file?
We have vim-css-color to display colors in .css files. Currently I'm editing my i3wm config to match colors to a new terminal theme and it would be quite handy to be able to actually see colors I'm ...
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How to share syntax highlights files for a “new” language?
In past I asked the question about how to create syntax specifications for ChatScript, a new programming language unforeseen in standard programming languages vim set (see: Vim syntax highlighting for ...
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marks with fullline visualization
There is any solution to highlight the entire line where a mark has been inserted (e.g. with command ma)?
The best could be to have marked each mark with a different color of choice.
Any idea?
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Highlight word on double click and copy to clipboard
I am using this excellent solution by Peter Rinker to highlight all occurrences of a word on double clicking.
nnoremap <silent> <2-LeftMouse> :let @/='\V\<'.escape(expand('<cword>...
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Vim puts highlight boxes at a fixed distance on every line — how to remove?
I am getting red boxes at the same point on every line. This is even true for lines that don't extend that far -- there's a red box futher on the line than I can even type.
What have I done and how ...
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Can I map the number of search matches to a key?
I'd like to map 0 to whatever number of matches I currently have. For example:
This here has 5 matches. If I wanted to perform a macro on every instance, i'd like to be able to simply type:
0Q (Q ...
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Keystroke to move cursor to the last character of a highlight?
In Visual Mode, you can do this using the o keystroke.
However with search highlighting, ie ? or / -- I have a whole selection, but I want to move specifically to the last character of the highlight....
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vim setting bold color hightlight
Everywhere the highlight shows bold, it has a color of light yellow on my white background. This is not bold. Its unreadable. Is there anywhere I can change this color? I can clear the highlight where ...
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Why does modifying the `Normal` highlight group affect syntax not belonging to the highlight group?
Im running terminal vim, and when a syntax highlighted file is loaded and I have a colorscheme active and I run this command
:hi Normal ctermbg=2 ctermfg=0
ALL text in the window changes, not just ...
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Is there an incsearch for the replace command?
I really enjoy Vim's incsearch functionality. Is there a way to have it, or something similar to it, working while I do a replacement?
For example, if in normal mode I type:
:%s/potato/
Can I get ...
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how can I condition a variable on my colorscheme?
I use different colorschemes depending on the color of my xterm. Some of them (in particular torte) set the background color to black, others leave the background color the same as the xterm color. ...
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Why is vim not obeying the LineNr highlighting in my vimrc?
I use vim via the console.
I have the following line in my vimrc:
highlight LineNr ctermfg=5
It doesn't do anything, but when I type this in as a command, it correctly changes the line numbers' ...
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Set highlighted token to blink during search and replace
When I do a global search and replace with confirm (e.g.,
:s/t/s/gc) I have a lot of trouble seeing which of many occurrences is currently under the cursor.
I've tried the usual tricks, e.g., hi ...
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How do I get consistent behavior with matchadd color column?
After watching Damian Conway's talk, I added the following two lines to my .vimrc.
highlight ColorColumn ctermbg=magenta
call matchadd('ColorColumn', '\%81v', 100)
My objective is to get the 81st ...
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Which highlight-group should I use for :sign define x linehl?
The sign help says:
linehl={group}
Highlighting group used for the whole line the sign is placed
in. Most useful is defining a background color.
Is there a special group I can use (...
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Stop highlighting when entering Insert mode
I would like Vim to stop highlighting matches when entering Insert mode. And not to highlight them again until a new search is performed.
A first thought would be to add the following line to my ....
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How to quickly cycle through the search history?
The fact that Vim highlights the strings matched by a search expression can be useful if you are searching for visual patterns in a text.
I would like to now if it was possible to quickly cycle ...
