Questions tagged [highlight]
Adding highlighting to the document other than syntax highlighting (such as hlsearch or :match)
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Generate relatively unique "cache filename" for given file path (like swap files do)
For each filename, Vim generates (relatively) unique filename for it's swap cache directory.
Let's say I would like to store some information for each file (like swap files do), e.g. with :
silent ...
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How to do no higlight search in a mapping?
I want to write some mappings so I can move faster between the code. The problem is that I have hlsearch on(and i don't want it off) so I did it like this:
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.py
nnoremap <...
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Stop vim from highlighting "note" in yellow inside SQL comments
I am using vim under Ubuntu under the windows WLS. When I edit SQL files, only inside comments - the word "note" is always highlighted with a background yellow color. This includes, for ...
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How to change the directory highlight in the terminal buffer?
I have a theme which is great apart from some minor things. I could already change the LineNr highlight and some others, but can't seem to change the directory highlight in the terminal buffer, which ...
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How can I highlight Doxygen comments in italics, in C?
Currently in my .vimrc is:
" C specifics
autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.h,*.c set filetype=c.doxygen
" italic comments
highlight Comment cterm=italic
This results in italic highlighting for ...
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Regex multiple lines search, matched, but highlighted only what initially is on screen
Let's say I have the following fantasy code
// a long definition of a structure
struct long_struct {
...
};
There are tons of multiple lines inside such block of code. It cannot be displayed ...
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Search from vim function
I am trying to use a vim function to search whether :noh has been set or not
This is similar to question found here except that question does not take :noh into account
One way to search from a ...
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Scroll results of :hi
When I type :hi to see all the highlight groups, I only see as much as can fill the screen. How do I scroll through them?
:hi[ghlight] List all the current highlight groups that have
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How to colorize words in a buffer, using type data and position data?
I am writing a plugin for Neovim using Lua.
If I have a text and some predefined arbitrary types, for example:
chita
wolf
grizzly
types: dog(green), cat(blue), bear(yellow)
And I know positions/...
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Conceal HTML span and highlight content
I am currently writing some Anki cards in NeoVim. Anki supports HTML and I can therefore write cards in the following format.
Forumlate the <span class="highlight">Central Limit ...
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Disabling spellchecker highlight
When activating the spellchecker (with :set spell spelllang=en_us for example), all incorrect words are highlighted. I'd prefer if they'd not be highlighted, but the spell checker to continue to work (...
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Have to hit "Enter" after searching or I lose the pattern
If I am searching for a word inside a file,
if I do not hit ENTER after the search pattern,
my vi loses the current match and jumps back to where it was.
I have
set hlsearch
set incsearch
in .vimrc.
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Signature popup has unreadable colors in YCM for Rust
I'm using Vim 8.2 with rust highlighter and YCM plugin for auto-completion and signature help.
Everything works except method signature:
It has same color for both color text and bg in parts like ...
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Toggle specific highlight group
Is it possible to temporarily disable the text highlight under cursor?
The current highlight group can be obtained by synIDattr(synIDtrans(synID(line('.'), col('.'), 1)), 'name'). How to clear it to ...
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vim/vim-latex: spell-check highlighting breaks after occurrences of \end{center}, \end{enumerate}, \end{itemize}
The highlighting of misspelled words in my LaTeX documents breaks, when I open a .tex file and jump to the bottom instead of scrolling through the whole document. Only .tex files seem to be affected, ...
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How do I make sure terminal vim has syntax highlighting with 'cursorline' and 'termguicolors'?
I searched this issue on the web to no avail and it's most likely not here too. The issue I'm facing goes like this
I am trying to switch to vim since I find it cool. I was writing my vimrc and ...
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How to change color of tabbar of neovim
How can I change the color of tabbar background (which is green in below screenshot)
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vim highlighting: only overwrite background, not foreground color
I have highlighted keywords and characters in bold and in different fg colours (with syn match). When I create an area highlight (e.g. between [ ] or ( )) the character and keyword highlighting is ...
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Cannot get rid of persisting highlighting
I switched from macos to linux and have spontaneous highlighting in my document. I tried to get rid of it by doing the following command without success:
hi clear
no syntax
nohlsearch
noh
The ...
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different highlight if a certain highlight is on
I'm writing a function to highlight current word, but on commented out lines, I want a different highlight to apply.
Example:
Notice how the word exists is highlighed, but on a grey commented out ...
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stash and restore highlight colors with lua and neovim
I would like to toggle an option and with it the highlight color of Whitespace.
Before setting the color with vim.api.nvim_command("hi Whitespace guifg=#ff0000") I would like to stash the ...
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How to put sync region start=<this> into a variable?
I have the following code:
com! -nargs=* ShFoldFunctions <args> fold
ShFoldFunctions syn region shFunctionOne start="^\s*[A-Za-z_0-9:,][-a-zA-Z_0-9:]*\s*()\_s*{" end="}&...
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Highlight word under cursor for Go channel
I use this code to highlight:
autocmd CursorMoved * exe printf('match IncSearch /\V\<%s\>/', escape(expand('<cword>'), '/\'))
But it fail for <-done in Go:
:verbose set isk returns
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Highlight groups stop working after sourcing vimrc
I'm working on a todo plugin for Neovim, using the remote plugin API.
I set highlight groups and matching patterns in my script, and then register it with call remote#host#RegisterPlugin. When Neovim ...
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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.
enew
setlocal
\ bufhidden=...
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Is there a way to use matchadd() to highlight multiple lines without highlighting newlines?
Suppose I have this in a text buffer (vim --clean mydoc.txt):
One
Two
Three
Four
I highlight all lines using :call matchadd('ErrorMsg', '.*'), resulting in:
Notice that the newline character on each ...
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Highlight Unicode Characters
Is it possible to highlight unicode characters?
When I copy/paste a code sample I sometimes run into problems because the website uses ‐, ‑, ‒ or – instead of - or some other characters that are hard ...
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How to highlight around of current line in Vim? [closed]
I want to highlight around of current line in Vim like VSCode.
Edit: I want to highlight up, left, down, and right of current line.
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Can you call highlight more than once? Need different colors for different matches
I am working with text files and Goyo. I'd like to highlight two different kinds of notes delimited by brackets (one called "NOTE:" and the other "TODO:") in different colors.
I ...
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How do you change the background color for only one window?
I have tried ownsyntax but that does not work. I want do change the background color for only one window? I have tried this but it highlights all the windows.
hi Normal guibg=grey guifg=black
It ...
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Non-regex complex color; is that possible in vim?
Is it possible to do more complex coloring than using regexes in Vim? I'm interested in implementing a feature in vim-flog where a commit and all its ancestors would be colored. That means the exact ...
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Which highlight group is responsible for the confirmation dialog?
If I have set confirm, Vim will show a confirmation dialog if I attempt to quit Vim when there are unsaved changes:
Which highlight group is responsible for the colors of the text in the confirmation ...
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How to use different rules for highlighting trailing whitespace inside a gitcommit diff
In my ~/.vimrc, I have:
highlight TrailingWhitespace ctermbg=blue
autocmd BufReadPost * syn match TrailingWhitespace /\s\+\%#\@<!$/
This highlights trailing spaces, except when I am still typing ...
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Is it possible to detect a highlighted search match with synIDattr() or similar?
When I have hlsearch on and my cursor is somewhere in a highlighted search match, is it possible to detect the search highlight hl-Search with synIDattr() or a similar function?
As far as I can tell ...
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Is it possible to override the filetype of a text file based on the first line?
I have some specifically formatted text files that I'd like to detect when I start vim. When I load these files now, the filetype is automatically set to text. I only want to override that if the ...
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Show all instances of a certain string
I use * and # for quick and basic typo checking.
If I type AVeryLongVariableName, I can put my cursor on the word, press * and see all the other places that word is used. I know I spelled it correctly....
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How to highlight cursor line number without cursor line?
I want the cursor line number to have a different color than the rest of numbers with cursorline disabled.
Sadly CursorLineNR is only active if set cursorline. I could do set cursorline followed by hi ...
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Print bound autocmds to a file
I would like to print all of my current autocmds to a file so that I can grep through and do further analysis.
From within vim, the list of autocmds can be found with :autocmd, but this prints to a ...
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How to check what of highlight is the word on cursor?
I found this article,
How to know which highlighting group is used for the background of a word?
however, it prints out something not what I look for.
It prints out like
VimCommand
VimOption
...
but ...
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How do you highlight text surrounded by double equals
I'm using vimwiki plugin with markdown. I'd like to highlight text using double equals, which isn't standard, but is quite useful. Ideally, this should replace background (for instance, yellow) and ...
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How to get highlight style used for the text under cursor? [duplicate]
There is some text under my cursor that specific highlight is used. I do not know which highlight is that. I can type :highlight and randomly guess which could that be. Is there a method to just place ...
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Persistent highlighting (not affected by cursor movement) of selected lines?
I would like to highlight or color certain lines to mark them visually, and then move around freely in the file without affecting the selection. Is there a way of doing this? I know I can do 'v' to ...
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Highlighting the matching pair of a character changes the foreground color of Cursor
I'm using Vim 8.2 on Fedora 32. I have the following lines in ~/.vimrc for highlighting the Cursor, lCursor, CursorLine, and MatchParen highlight groups:
highlight Cursor guibg=Green guifg=Black
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Turning the `match` command on and off
I found this useful setting form this post, which highlights trailing whitespaces :
highlight ExtraWhitespace ctermbg=grey guibg=grey
noremap <F10> :match ExtraWhitespace /\s\+$/<CR>
This ...
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How to highlight text between two delimiters / tags?
How do I highlight the block of text between two delimiters / tags / "surroundings"?
(e.g., between matching parentheses ()s, quotes "", html tags (div../div), etc.)
(Or maybe how ...
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How to fix unreadable highlighted text during search?
This is an example of how highlighted text looks in my vim:
In the color scheme I am using (/usr/share/vim/vim82/colors/peachpuff.vim) the color is defined like this:
hi Search term=reverse ctermbg=3 ...
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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'...
