On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 08:55:38AM -0700, Ben Fritz wrote: > > All the 'highlight' commands in my .vimrc seem to get overridden by the > > colorscheme. > > What do you mean, "overridden"? The groups you use below > (WhiteSpaceEOL and OverLength) don't exist in any widely-distributed > colorschemes that I know of (maybe I'm wrong), so they shouldn't be > getting any new values from your colorscheme.
Hi Ben, thanks for having a look into this. What I mean is that the highlight values (WhiteSpaceEOL and OverLength) are *not* available for matching when I use the colorscheme command (beforehand!). > > I have the following commands in my .vimrc, slightly abbreviated: > > > > colorscheme delek > > highlight WhiteSpaceEOL ctermbg=darkgreen guibg=lightgreen > > match WhiteSpaceEOL /\s\+$/ > > highlight OverLength ctermbg=red ctermfg=white guibg=#592929 > > match OverLength /\%81v.\+/ > > > > First of all, this won't work. Your second "match" command will > override the first, and it wil only take effect on the first window > Vim opens. Any further windows will remain unaffected. You'd need to > also run the commands on any newly created windows, maybe with > WinEnter or BufWinEnter autocmds, and use matchadd() instead of > just :match (or use both :match and :2match). Thanks for the advice--the match commands were not the problem, though. You're right, the way I wrote it in the email would not have the desired effect. But it doesn't even apply the second match to the first window I open. It does nothing, because the highlight values (WhiteSpaceEOL and OverLength) get lost somewhere; where exactly is what I'm trying to figure out. However, when I delete the colorscheme command, they get remembered. I can then run the match commands in any window I open, and they work (individually, of course). Here's a concise problem description: Using this snippet in .vimrc """ colorscheme delek highlight WhiteSpaceEOL ctermbg=darkgreen guibg=lightgreen highlight OverLength ctermbg=red ctermfg=white guibg=#592929 """ I can't use the highlight values WhiteSpaceEOL and OverLength anywhere. However, if I delete the 'colorscheme' line, I can. What I expect: - That I can run a command like :match OverLength <pattern> with this .vimrc What happens: - 'OverLength' gets forgotten somewhere and the matching works, but doesn't set a color I checked I don't load the colorscheme anywhere else. > Secondly, regarding your OverLength match...are you aware of the new > ColorColumn feature in Vim 7.3? This new feature made such matches > obsolete for my own use anyway. No, I haven't upgraded yet. Thanks for the pointer. MB -- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Communications Engineering Lab (CEL) Dipl.-Ing. Martin Braun Research Associate Kaiserstraße 12 Building 05.01 76131 Karlsruhe Phone: +49 721 608-3790 Fax: +49 721 608-6071 www.cel.kit.edu KIT -- University of the State of Baden-Württemberg and National Laboratory of the Helmholtz Association
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