Questions tagged [highlight]
Adding highlighting to the document other than syntax highlighting (such as hlsearch or :match)
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How to automatically change the background color of the active split?
I use several splits (windows). To quickly identify the splits that has the focus I would like Vim to auromatically adapt the background color of the active split.
Is there a way to do so?
Is it ...
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In Neovim is there a way at nvim level to set priorities to control highlight resolution?
Background:
It's possible for multiple highlights to affect the same areas in the buffer and work correctly. For example syntax-related colors usually affect fg (foreground, text glyph) color, ...
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Display pattern count when highlighting searched pattern
Running Neovim 0.9, I have this mapping:
nnoremap <silent> <leader>l :<c-u>let @/ = '\<'.expand('<cword>').'\>'\|set hlsearch<CR>wb
which is a shortcut to ...
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How to get the highlight group of the word under the cursor in Neovim with Treesitter installed?
Ok folks, I've tried all these duplicates:
How to know which highlighting group is used for the background of a word?
How to identify the highlight groups in use on a particular character?
How to ...
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How can I check whether the user has defined a highlight group before Vim 8.2.3917
With this question I've learned of the existence of hlget and hlID, which I use in a plugin of mine like this:
if empty(hlget('SoftWrapHighlightGroup'))
" do stuff
endif
However, those ...
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How do I let the user of my plugin customize a custom highlight group I define?
In this plugin for (soft-)wrapping only the current line, I have defined a highlight group, au ColorScheme * hi SoftWrapHighlightGroup ctermbg=NONE ctermfg=NONE, which I use here as an argument to a ...
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How to turn off highlighting/colors for changes/current edits?
Recently (within the past year?) vim has started tracking changes as I edit, and highlighting those changes with a different color. I've given it a try, but I'd like to turn that specific feature off ...
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Highlight variable imported with a require function in JS
What if I want to create a highlight group for this variable:
const example = require (..)
I want to highlight the example variable and all occurrences.
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How to call incremental forward/reverse search inside function in Neovim?
I'm trying to implement a search function that finds a pattern and jumps to it without overriding the current searched for & highlighted pattern.
Specifically, I want to be able to type out the ...
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How to highlight missing comma in lua files?
I often forget the comma between embedded table entries in lua code.
t = {
a = { "str" },
b = {
{
"str3",
v = 1,
} <<-- missing comma
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Add a border to `:LspInfo` window in Neovim
I use a transparent colorscheme for my Neovim. Due to the transparency, the :LspInfo window is difficult to distinguish from the background. Can I add a border around the window?
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Is it possible to make neovim use single color for underline?
As title. With my current setup it looks like this:
But I only want it to use a single color. My current highlight setup:
:hi IndentBlanklineContextStart
IndentBlanklineContextStart xxx cterm=...
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Follow group links in :highlight command
In :highlight command, colors of some groups are shown as this:
:hi vim9Comment
vim9Comment xxx links to Comment
I then have to invoke another :hi command, this time with the linked group as the ...
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How can I maintain the status message after `zz` command?
I like to see the number of matches in a search on the bottom right
set shortmess-=S
But I also like to center the screen after I search
nnoremap n nzz
nnoremap N Nzz
nnoremap * *zz
nnoremap # #zz
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Live preview the result of running a :substitute command in a :global command in neovim
Assuming the following text
foo
bar pattern needle
pattern needle
I can enter the following command :g+pattern+s/needle/replacement to replace all the needles in lines that contain pattern.
With ...
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Fedora 35: Suddenly vi screen started looking funny!
A few days ago, vi started loading files and applying some strange highlighting. I have done nothing (on purpose anyway) to edit colors (don't know how).
Can anyone explain how to fix this? Default ...
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Color name or number not recognized with User1-9
When I run highlight User1 ctermbg=#505050 ctermfg=#d0d0d0 gui=italic, I get the following error.
E421: Color name or number not recognized: ctermbg=#505050 ctermfg=#d0d0d0 gui=italic
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Different highlighting between foldtext and "the line number on the folded line"?
Can I control the highlighting of the foldtext separately from the color of the line number on a folded line?
I want the foldtext to be quite visible while keeping my chosen line number color
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Highlight html/xml tags using only matchit and matchparen
I would like to highlight html and xml tags, but most plugins I find (e.g. vim-matchup) look like they do way more than I'd like, which I'd like to avoid. Is it possible to highlight the tags by using ...
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Why are incsearch and hlsearch disabled when opening a .csv file?
I like the incsearch and hlsearch options in Vim, so early on in my .vimrc file, I have the following lines:
augroup allfiles
autocmd FileType * :set nocindent noexpandtab incsearch hlsearch
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Can I stylize the current closed-fold line? If yes, how?
I like to have the current line highlighted (in terminal vim), but not as a punch in my eye, so what I have is this in my ~/.vimrc:
au ColorScheme *
\ hi CursorLine ctermbg=NONE ctermfg=NONE cterm=...
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Is there a way to highlight text but not based on syntax?
I was thinking about writing a little file viewing plugin, similar to netrw but my own thing, and I'm not sure how to highlight the files differently if there's no syntactic difference between the ...
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How to chain multiple script commands?
I have used this script to be able to highlight results from test reports: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Highlight_multiple_words
When using it in Vim, it works fine when I type :Highlight 1 FAILED (For ...
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How to add commands from an external script to .vimrc?
I have used this script to be able to highlight results from test reports: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Highlight_multiple_words
When using it in Vim, it works fine when I type :Highlight 1 FAILED (For ...
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Is there an hightlight group for the command line?
I'm referring to he line where an ex command is entered, right after I press : from normal mode.
Just to give an example, let's say I want the background of the ex line to be permanently red.
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Can't read my highlighted searches
In this display, what does the "xxx" mean?
:hi Search
Search xxx term=reverse ctermbg=11 guibg=Yellow
On my display (cygwin/xterm), Search displays as black on black.
If I do this, ...
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Wrong column highlight on lines containing references or links
I've recently taken up nvim and came accross a weird issue.
I've turned on cursor position highlighting for both lines and columns (set cursorline and set cursorcolumn), and usually it works as ...
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highlighting: match dot in group
I have several syntax match patterns, that logically belong together.
Currently I match them like this:
syntax match FOO /\v<(foo1|foo2|foo3)>/
What I actually want to match is .foo1, .foo2 and ....
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Setting font color and underline of `highlight SpellBad`
I want hi SpellBad to be red (167 or #fb4934) and underlined. What I have right now is this:
...in vimrc...
setlocal spell
set spelllang=en_gb
inoremap <C-l> <c-g>u<Esc>[s1z=`]a<...
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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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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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