striker wrote:
I am using colorscheme vo_dark. When I :set cul or use visual
highlighting, the color for the highlight is light gray and makes the
highlighted text very difficult to see.
The first few lines are:
let g:colors_name="VO Dark"
hi normal guifg=darkgreen guibg=black ctermfg=darkgreen ctermbg=black
hi StatusLine guifg=darkgreen guibg=black ctermfg=darkgreen
ctermbg=black
hi StatusLineNC guifg=darkgreen guibg=black ctermfg=darkgreen
ctermbg=black
hi VertSplit guifg=darkgreen guibg=black ctermfg=darkgreen ctermbg=black
hi OL1 guifg=darkgreen ctermfg=darkgreen
hi OL2 guifg=red ctermfg=red
hi OL3 guifg=lightblue ctermfg=lightblue
hi OL4 guifg=violet ctermfg=magenta
hi OL5 guifg=darkgreen ctermfg=darkgreen
hi OL6 guifg=red ctermfg=red
hi OL7 guifg=lightblue ctermfg=lightblue
hi OL8 guifg=violet ctermfg=magenta
hi OL9 guifg=darkgreen ctermfg=darkgreen
My question is this:
What do I need to look for and change in order to implement a new
color for the highlighting?
The color groups are mentioned under
:help 'cursorline'
:help 'cursorcolumn'
:help 'highlight'
I'm assuming that you don't want to turn the highlighting off, just
change the colours.
1. Open, in Vim, your colorscheme (vo_dark.vim, which is in the "colors"
subdirectory of one of the directories named in the 'runtimepath' option).
2. Using the ":saveas" command, copy it to ~/.vim/colors (for Unix) or
~/vimfiles/colors (for Windows) and give it a different filename. For
instance
:saveas ~/.vim/colors/striker-dark.vim
3. Add ":highlight" lines for the following:
hi CursorColumn ...
hi CursorLine ...
hi Visual ...
hi VisualNOS ...
(VisualNOS is used only on X11 systems but it does no harm on others)
where the ... are to be replaced by one or more of the following:
term=<mode>
where <mode> is one or more (comma-separated) of NONE reverse bold
underline (etc., see ":help attr-list), defining the display mode to be
used on black-and-white console terminals. AFAIK Vim has no provision
for making text invisible in a monochrome text monitor.
ctermfg=<foreground>
ctermbg=<background>
where <foreground> and <background> are the colors to be used in color
text consoles; in general, on 8-color terminals, or for the background
on 8-background 16-foreground color terminals, the first 8 names
mentioned under ":help term-colors" can be used. When 16 colors are
usable, use the 16 names mentioned there.
gui=<mode>
guifg=<foreground>
guibg=<background>
defining the highlight to be used in gvim. <mode> is as with term=
above; <foreground> and <background> can take many values, some of which
are mentioned under ":help gui-colors" and/or ":help win32-colors"; your
system may accept more, if it has an "rgb.txt" file where it can find it
(see ":help rgb.txt); and any color can be specified in hex, as #RRGGBB
where RR (red), GG (green) and BB (blue) each range from 00 to FF. One
of my sources says that for best portability it is best to use color
components (red, green and blue) each of which is a multiple of 0x33. I
pass that info (or intox) for what it's worth.
4. Then save your new colorscheme (:w) and test it (:colorscheme
striker-dark).
5. Once you're satisfied with the result, replace "colorscheme vo-dark"
by "colorscheme striker-dark" (or whatever) in your vimrc.
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Another color related question:
Can anyone tell me of a plugin or way to turn-on highlighting for a
single word?
Kevin
see ":help :match". Or with 'hlsearch' on, the latest search or replace
operation (actually, the contents of register / ) will have its matches
highlighted. So, to highlight all occurrences of the word "word" without
actually searching for them (or moving the cursor), use
:let @/ = '\<word\>'
Notes:
1. Use single quotes, not double quotes, so that the backslashes are
stored unchanged in the pattern.
2. In a pattern, \< means "start of word" and \> means "end of word".
Both are zero-length pattern atoms.
Best regards,
Tony.
