Thursday, February 17, 2011

Re: highlight with transparent background

On 02/17/2011 02:13 AM, Ben Schmidt wrote:
>> I found under :help highlight-guibg that setting guibg to NONE should
>> result in a transparent background, but when i try this gvim always
>> uses the background color of the default text as the guibg. Is it
>> somehow possible to make vim always use the current background color
>> for the User1 highlight?
>
> I think I found that doing
>
> :hi Whatever guibg=NONE
>
> wasn't sufficient to make this work, but that
>
> :hi Whatever NONE
> or
> :hi clear Whatever
>
> worked. Try putting one of those before a second :hi command that only
> sets the fg and see if that works.
>

I tried this with
:hi clear User2
:hi User2 guifg=grey

But it still changes the background to the default background color. I
also tried ':hi User2 NONE' instead of the clear, but that didn't make
any difference. I guess i'll have to live with it :)

Jeroen

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