Questions tagged [highlight]
Adding highlighting to the document other than syntax highlighting (such as hlsearch or :match)
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Highlighting tabs, trailing space and non-breaking space by colors, not chars
Currently I highlight these with:
set listchars=tab:▶—,trail:␣,nbsp:⍽
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 ‘\302’ in program
error: stray ‘\240’ 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:...
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Highlight semicolmns when editting lua files [duplicate]
I program in both C and Lua and therefore sometimes add a semicolmn in my Lua files. This is allowed by the standard, but my company's guidelines forbid semicolmns in lua code. Therefore, I would like ...
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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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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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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 ...
