Re: Highlighting seems to forget values

On 24/08/10 13:58, Martin Braun wrote:
> Hi,
>
> using 7.2, I have the following problem:
>
> All the 'highlight' commands in my .vimrc seem to get overridden by the
> colorscheme.
>
> 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.\+/
>
> Deleting the 'colorscheme' command helps; but of course I don't want to
> use the standard one. It seems like syntax highlighting is not a
> problem.
>
> Can anyone give me some pointers how to fix this? Or do I have to make
> my own colorscheme? I'd prefer not to; sometimes I switch it--but I also
> think having the 'highlight' commands after the colorscheme command
> should be OK.
>
> Cheers,
> MB

Most colorschemes will start by clearing all highlighting.

- If you want to set :hi colors in your vimrc, make sure that they are
used _after_ the :colorscheme command

- The :match command is window-local (but continues to apply if you edit
a different file in the same window).

- Don't reinvent the wheel:
- instead of WhiteSpaceEOL, you could use:
:set list listchars=tab:\|_,trail:<,eol:¶
* tab: must be used if you don't want hard tabs
displayed as ^I. What I've put here will display each
hard tab as one | followed by zero or more _
characters, in blue (or in whatever your colorscheme
sets for the SpecialKey highlight group). If you want
tabs-as-specas, use "tab:\ \ " (without the quotes).
* trail: defines one character which will be used for
all trailing spaces (and highlighted as SpecialKey).
* eol: defines one character which will be used to show
the end of the line (and highlighted as NonText). If you
don't define one you'll get a dollar sign. If you don't
want an explicit end-of-line marker, use a backslash-
escaped space.
You may feel that using both trail: and eol: is redundant.
See :help 'listchars' for details.
- instead of OverLength, you may want to use the new 'colorcolumn'
option (which, however, is new in Vim 7.3, so you would have to upgrade
first).

Best regards,
Tony.
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