Tien Pham wrote:
Hi all
Is there anyway to change the background colour, font colour and to
convert normal font to bold font just for a few words in VIM files?
I have a large file with many different sections and headings. I have
been trying to find a way to make some headings or some notes standing
out from the rest of the text by using different colours or different
font sizes but I could find these things from the help command. I would
appreciate if someone show me how to do it or tell me it cannot be done
in VIM so that I can stop searching for my solution.
Many thanks
tien
Different font sizes are not possible. In Vim, all printable characters must
be exactly the same height and width, with the exception of East-Asian "wide"
characters, which must be exactly the same height and exactly twice the width
of ASCII (or other "narrow") characters.
Different colours, as well as bold and (in terminals which support them)
underlined or italic, are possible using syntax highlighting. For instance, in
HTML files, any combination of <b>, <i> and <u> tags produces the
corresponding combination of bold, italic and/or underlined text in gvim.
Similarly, in help, the words "Note" and (IIRC) "TODO" are highlighted in a
different colour than the rest (in gvim, usually black on yellow).
The commands :match, :2match and :3match (the latter is used for bracket
matching and only the former exists prior to version 7) allow setting
different bg/fg colours for text which matches a certain regular expression.
See
:help syntax.txt
:help :match
Best regards,
Tony.
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