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What does :set background=dark do?
What happens when you :set background
The basic mechanism by which :set background works is actually pretty simple, and
it is documented (although not particularly clearly) in :help 'background'.
...
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How to add indentation guides/lines?
Another option I use, which isn't exactly what you asked for, but accomplishes the same purpose of making it easier to see what is in the same column, is to set the following in your vimrc:
set ...
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How do I customize vimdiff colors?
One quick fix is to disable syntax highlighting. Sometimes the code syntax highlighting will cause the foreground text to be the same color as the vimdiff background color, making the text "invisible"....
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How do I customize vimdiff colors?
The colors are controlled by these four highlight groups (:help hl-DiffAdd):
DiffAdd diff mode: Added line
DiffChange diff mode: Changed line
DiffDelete diff mode: Deleted line
DiffText diff ...
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How do I customize vimdiff colors?
Extending Ingo Karkat's solution to terminal,
hi DiffAdd ctermfg=NONE ctermbg=Green
hi DiffChange ctermfg=NONE ctermbg=NONE
hi DiffDelete ctermfg=LightBlue ctermbg=Red
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Highlight whole todo comment line
I'm not sure why the answer you linked to is accepted and so highly voted, because neither of the included solutions will actually work, and while a working solution is alluded to in the explanation, ...
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How do I restore visual mode selection highlighting?
I had this issue as well because I had switched to the "evening" color scheme in my ~/.vimrc file so that my comments were easier to read on a dark background:
:colorscheme evening
To restore visual ...
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How do I customize vimdiff colors?
Another quick (perhaps even lazy) fix is to just do something like:
:colo desert
This will change your color scheme, and in some cases will make hidden text become visible.
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Trouble Using Color Scheme in NeoVim
Main Issue
The main problem you are experiencing is caused by the ordering of the
commands in your .vimrc.
You set the g:impact_transbg variable after you load the colorscheme, and
so the variable ...
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Make vim show all the colors
The colorscheme must be missing cterm definitions, the full highlight command should look like:
hi Normal cterm=NONE ctermfg=15 ctermbg=7 gui=NONE guifg=White guibg=grey20
If your terminal supports ...
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How to set if else for vim's "set background = " for light and dark colorschemes?
if &background ==# 'dark'
" balabala
endif
&background get value of 'background' option, check :help let-&
==# compare strings case sensitively, check :help ==#
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Strange Highlighting during Git Commit
Your Vim setup is actually behaving correctly, here.
Git commit messages are recommended always to have a blank line after the first line. The strange colouring you're seeing is highlighting this as ...
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Neovim Gray Background
A quick rundown on colorschemes
See :help :colorscheme. Essentially it sources a file containing :highlight commands.
What are highlight commands?
Statements of the form
:hi[ghlight] [default] {group-...
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24-bit / 256 colorscheme in Windows console
tl;dr: My path was using the an old Vim version, with v8.1.428 we have full 24-bit glorious colours in Vim in the Windows Console! See below for screenshots.
Err, so there was a basic mistake on my ...
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How to set a colorscheme that still shows spelling errors?
Here is a bit more complete answer to address this annoyance:
" Force to use underline for spell check results
augroup SpellUnderline
autocmd!
autocmd ColorScheme *
\ highlight SpellBad
\ ...
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How to completely turn off colorscheme?
Disabling Colours Entirely
If you want Vim not to use colours at all, you just need to run the command:
:set t_Co=0
This tells Vim that it is running in a terminal that does not support colours, so ...
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How to save color scheme in gVim between sessions?
In Vim, settings are saved across sessions by writing them in an init script called vimrc.
On Windows, that vimrc is supposed to be at:
$HOME\_vimrc
or (if HOME is not defined):
C:\Users\yourlogin\...
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List valid color schemes?
If you want to do this in Vimscript, you can get a List of color schemes by using the getcompletion() function:
let c = getcompletion('', 'color')
echo c
This is a bit simpler than the existing ...
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how to change vim background color in hex code or rgb color code?
To set the background (and foreground) to some explicit color, you probably want to use a highlight command in your vimrc, such as
" plain text
hi Normal ctermfg=227 ctermbg=17
(assuming you are ...
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How to set a colorscheme that still shows spelling errors?
I'm going to take a stab in the dark and suggest that your configuration is probably resulting in no highlighting.
You can check this with the command :verbose highlight SpellBad: if the xxx at the ...
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How to customize colorschemes without editing their source files?
The AfterColors plug-in (GitHub mirror) provides an after-directory auto-loading mechanism for color schemes. This can however be easily achieved in modern Vim by using the ColorScheme autocommand ...
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How can Vim be configured to restore normal terminal color on exit?
How to Clear the Screen When Exiting Vim
When Vim quits, it sends the escape sequence defined by the t_te setting to the terminal in order to tell it what to do. This should be set automatically by ...
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What does :set background=dark do?
The doc at :h 'background'
should provide all the information you need:
When set to "dark", Vim will try to use colors that look good on a
dark background. When set to "light", Vim will try to ...
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Vim9: How will '#' characters be handled in colors/* files now?
In vim9 comment starts with either space+# or beginning of the line and # (as far as I remember). So your color setting would still work.
:h vim9
/Comments starting<CR>
To improve readability ...
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Automatically disable cursorline when in diff mode?
One would expect, that the OptionSet autocommand is triggered when entering diff mode. Unfortunately that is currently not the case. So I created a patch that will enable this behavior. Once it is ...
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ctermbg and ctermfg are backwards or incorrect for certain highlighting groups
You're probably overlooking the additional attributes set in the cterm= field for those highlights.
For instance, after I set ctermfg=black ctermbg=white for StatusLine, I get this when I query it:
:...
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How can I change the colorscheme of the vim terminal buffer?
I had the same question (I am using vim 8.2) and a google search brought me here. I searched vim help for g:terminal_ansi_colors and made a list as they suggested of rgb values for gruvbox using the ...
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How to install base16 for iTerm2?
You have to run the script when your shell starts and it has to be ran from the base16-vim color scheme, which is tersely documented in base16-shell. But, you don't want to use that script. It'll ...
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Vim zebra line coloring?
It is possible using my plugin DynamicSigns. Quoting from the README:
2.7 Alternating colors
You can also set up the plugin to color the lines in your buffer in alternating colors. To do so, ...
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Hightlight Gutter of Function Being Edited
One could (ab)use :help sign:
" define an highlight group
highlight CurrentBlock ctermbg=red ctermfg=red cterm=NONE
" define a sign
sign define currentblock text=>> texthl=CurrentBlock
" ...
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