On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:09:49PM -0800, Ralph Shumaker wrote:
The coloring is already subtle (deep dark blue). How do I set it so that:
:set list
:set listchars=tab:>-,trail:-
are always on unless I want to turn them off? (And what is the simplest
way to turn them off? :set nolist?)
Just put them in your "~/.vimrc". The :set nolist will turn them off.
I'm guessing you have a dark background. Dark blue is hardly subtle on the
beige background I use.
With a UTF-8 terminal, you can set the listchars to any Unicode character
you have in your font, so you can probably find something nice and subtle.
All tabs to varying lengths of ">" to ">------" (in dark blue) and trailing
spaces as dark blue ASCII 216 (or maybe just "X") would be nice. If color
is ever in conflict with something else (like comments), how do I change
it?
Try :help highlight for more information. You might play with some of
the :colorscheme options. If completion is on, you should be able to type
:colorscheme<space><tab> and then be able to cursor through a list. There
are hundreds more available, but most seem optimized for gvim.
The highlight for the tabs is 'SpecialKey', so, you could try something
like
:hi SpecialKey ctermfg=Cyan guifg=Cyan cterm=NONE term=NONE
Which I find much less intrusive.
Dave
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