On 2007-04-15, fREW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/13/07, A.J.Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Andre Majorel wrote:
> > > Are there any plans to make the highlight-the-matching-thing
> > > "feature" disabled by default in a future release of Vim ?
> > >
> >
> > AFAIK, there isn't; for one thing, it would break all the vimrc's which
> > rely
> > on its being set by default (and therefore don't force-set it).
> >
> > As your Subject line shows, you know how to remove that feature.
> Personally I like this feature, but I do get lost every now and then
> and forget which one is my cursor. Is there any way that I can say,
> make the cursor have a red background and make the matched paren (or
> whatever) have a blue background? And is there a way to do this that
> won't break if the background is already red/blue?
I had this same problem, so I added this line to my color scheme.
It may be sufficient to just put something like this in your .vimrc.
highlight MatchParen ctermbg=4
HTH,
Gary
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