Thursday, July 7, 2011

Re: Changing elements of a color scheme

On Jul 7, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Charles Campbell wrote:

> May I suggest a few plugins:
>
> * to identify the name of the syntax item that you want to change colors for:
>
> hilinks.vim:
>
> http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#HILINKS
>
> This one provides the :HLT! command -- with it you'll get a syntax stack trace and a highlighting stack trace as you move your cursor about. Thus, you'll be able to identify what it is you want to change.
>
>
> * to see what colors your colorscheme supports, and to modify it to produce a custom colorscheme: check out hicolors,
>
> http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#HICOLORS (cutting edge)
> http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=1081 (stable)
>
> It gives help for highlighting colors by showing the name of the highlight in
> its currently selected color. Left-clicking on that color name will bring you
> to the help for it, and right-clicking on it will bring up a color editor.

Wow! What a Vim gold mine -- at least it appears so to this novice.

And thanks. I suspected there would be something like this out there. I'll check it out.

Sincerely,
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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA USA
eeweir@bellsouth.net


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