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Is there any way to change the popup menu color?
You can use the following highlight groups:
Pmenu – normal item
PmenuSel – selected item
PmenuSbar – scrollbar
PmenuThumb – thumb of the scrollbar
For example to set a grey background:
:highlight ...
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How to automatically turn off "hlsearch" after I'm done searching?
There is a much more convenient way. Rather than using
:set nohlsearch
which actually turns the hlsearch setting off, use
:nohls
This will only turn hlsearch off until you search again. From :...
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How can I clear word highlighting in the current document (e.g. such as after searching for a word)?
Disable search highlighting permanently
Matches won't be highlighted whenever you do a search using /
:set nohlsearch
Clear highlight until next search
:noh
or :nohlsearch (clears until n or N is ...
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How to set value of cterm to both bold and underline?
Vim has excellent help files.
I had no idea what the answer was to this question but I found it in one minute:
:h cterm (don't hit Enter yet)
Tab for auto-completion to see some choices
highlight-...
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Visual select current search result
You can use the gn motion for that, it selects the next searched element.
You can use it like so:
/foo<CR>
gn -> select the next "foo"
sbar<Esc> -> (optional) ...
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How to dim characters from :set list
:help 'listchars' mentions:
The "NonText" highlighting will be used for "eol", "extends" and
"precedes". "SpecialKey" for "nbsp", "space", "tab" and "trail".
hl-NonText hl-SpecialKey
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Why is `:highlight Cursor ...` ignored?
Playing with the Cursor highlight group is a waste of time because the cursor color is handled by your terminal emulator, not by Vim.
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How to automatically turn off "hlsearch" after I'm done searching?
vim-cool is a simple plugin that does just this.
Vim-cool disables search highlighting when you are done searching and
re-enables it when you search again.
It works without remapping by using ...
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How can I highlight matching "%" names (e.g. if/end, for/end) defined by matchit.vim on selection?
I thought this idea was interesting, so I gave it a shot. It will be particularly useful in dense files, such as HTML.
The following script simply lets matchit.vim do what it does while recording ...
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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 to search for lines matching current line in vim
Especially for mapping purposes, I find using getline() more elegant than doing the yanking yourself. Calling getline() with a string '.' returns the line under the cursor. There are two good options ...
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Change color of misspelled words in vim-lexical
The repository says it uses Vim's spellcheck, so you should be able edit your color file's SpellBad highlighting to do this. Something like:
hi SpellBad ctermfg=red guifg=red
You could also put ...
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Is there an incsearch for the replace command?
After a bit of searching, I found this NeoVim issue, which in turn was closed by this PR, which brought me to the inccommand setting. Adding this to my config file:
set inccommand=nosplit
makes ...
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Echo highlighted warning in one line
This should work:
function! EchoWarning(msg)
echohl WarningMsg
echo "Warning"
echohl None
echon ': ' a:msg
endfunction
call EchoWarning('test')
This defined a simple function that you can ...
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Enable incremental search and highlight while typing a search term?
This is done by setting just two options: set is hls (incremental search and highlight all matches).
Make sure you've also read the appropriate help topics, excerpted below: :h 'is'
While typing a ...
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How to clear previous search highlight in vim?
You can look in the doc at :h nohl:
When there is a previous search pattern, highlight all its matches.
A useful mapping is the following:
nnoremap <C-l> :nohl<CR><C-L>
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How to color comments after a defined column
Try a contained syntax region:
syn match TooLong contained containedin=pythonComment /\%50c.*/
hi link TooLong Error
Instead of 50, use 80 or 72 or whichever column you prefer.
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How to highlight/match (but not search!) the word under cursor
For a quick solution, try this:
:nnoremap <F5> :match StatusLineTerm /<C-R><C-W>/<CR>
This uses Ctrl-RCtrl-W to insert the word under the cursor into the command line. See :...
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How to show illegal whitespace (such as unbreakable space) in source code?
List & Listchars
'list' is a boolean option that, when set, instructs vim to display whitespace characters. And it is completely customizable using 'listchars'.
For example, to show non-breaking ...
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Where do custom highlighting rules belong?
First question
Highlight definitions belong to your colorscheme. The fact that they are loaded for every buffer, no matter what their language, shouldn't be a problem at all.
If you don't want to ...
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Automatically highlight all occurrences of the selected text in visual mode
TL;DR: Combine * and # with hlsearch
You could highlight by using match and <cword> via an autocommand on an event like CursorHold. But I’m going to show an alternative method.
* searches ...
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How to highlight cursor line number without cursor line?
You need these three lines:
hi CursorLineNr guifg=#af00af
set cursorline
set cursorlineopt=number
The last line removes the highlighting of the cursor line even if cursorline is set and only ...
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How to disable search highlight automatically after searching?
I recently wrote a small plugin that seems to do exactly what you want.
It works by remapping search-related normal mode commands /?nN*#g*g# and <CR> in command-line mode, and installing a ...
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How can I clear word highlighting in the current document (e.g. such as after searching for a word)?
/asdfasdf
This has the advantage that you do not have to type it exaclty. The disadvantage is, that there is a about 1:68719476736 chance in a 4096 byte file that this does not work and your cursor ...
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How to search for lines matching current line in vim
Here's how I'd do it:
Yank the line (into the unnamed register), without including the newline at the end: 0y$
Initiate a very nomagic search: /\V
Add the yanked line: <c-r>"
Fire off the ...
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Highlight words with no other occurence in file
The following code defines the command :UniqueWords which tries to do what you want:
command! UniqueWords call UniqueWords()
function! UniqueWords() abort
let words = []
silent! %s/"\zs\w\{-}...
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How to search for lines matching current line in vim
The existing answers all fail if your line contains certain items that are interpreted as a part of a pattern. The \V point gets most of the way there but still messes up with the backslash.
Try this ...
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Automatically call matchadd() in every new window without producing duplicate entries
If I understand correctly, you have the highlight applied to all windows, and not deleted.
So, you have two scenarios:
A highlight is already active and you open a new window.
As the window is opened,...
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How to automatically turn off "hlsearch" after I'm done searching?
I have found it more intuitive to remap the Ctrl-L repaint to include :nohls:
nnoremap <C-L> :nohls<cr><C-L>
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Is there anything like matchaddpos() but stick the highlight with the character instead of grid?
You can't do that with matchadpos(). This is a known problem with Vim highlighting, and it isn't likely to be solved any time soon.
The best you can do is to use matcadd() with a regexp that matches ...
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