Re: Set different highlighting for Search versus current quickfix error

On 05/09/13 01:12, Paul wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 6:44:24 PM UTC-4, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>> On 04/09/13 23:51, Paul wrote:
>>> The GUI highlighting for the current quickfix item seems to be the
>>> same as whatever I set the Search group to. Is there a way to have
>>> a different guibg color?
>>
>> ...With me it doesn't: I just did a :helpgrep, and the current quickfix
>> item didn't get _any_ highlighting: with the cursor on it,
>>
>> :echomsg synIDattr(synID(line("."),col("."),0),"name")
>> synIDattr(synIDtrans(synID(line("."),col("."),0)),"name")
>> synIDattr(synID(line("."),col("."),1),"name")
>> synIDattr(synIDtrans(synID(line("."),col("."),1)),"name")
>>
>> ...didn't display anything. Or if it did, it was because there was
>> some highlighted syntax item (such as between |bars|) just under the
>> cursor.
>>
>> I'm using gvim 7.4.16 (Huge) with GTK2/GNOME2 GUI.
>
> I'm using vim 7.3 on Windows 7. When I issue:
>
> :echomsg synIDattr(synID(line("."),col("."),0),"name")
> :echomsg synIDattr(synIDtrans(synID(line("."),col("."),0)),"name")
> :echomsg synIDattr(synID(line("."),col("."),1),"name")
> :echomsg synIDattr(synIDtrans(synID(line("."),col("."),1)),"name")
>
> I get:
>
> qfFileName
> Directory
> qfFileName
> Directory
>
> It's interesting that you don't see the current quickfix item highlighted. I thought that maybe I set something to turn on quickfix highlighting, but I can't seem to find the switch. I searched the web and the quickfix help to see if quickfix is *suppose* to highlight the current item by default, but didn't find indications of that either.
>

I get the same as you do if I do :copen first. What I referred to was
the current quickfix item as found _in the text_ by :cnext, with no
quickfix window actually open.

I see this item as blue on white, and doing ":verbose hi qfFileName" in
the quickfix window gives

qfFileName xxx links to Directory
Last set from /usr/local/share/vim/vim74/syntax/qf.vim

The Search highlight, OTOH, is black on yellow. Not at all the same
thing for me, which makes me ask: Which colorscheme are you using?

To link qfFileName to something else, or to define specific colours for
it, just use a new or modified colorscheme.

To modify a colorscheme, first copy it to ~/.vim/colors/ (for *x
systems) or to ~/vimfiles/colors (for Windows), change its name, and
modify it there (including setting g:colors_name to the new name); then
alter the calling line so that it calls the new name. It is not possible
to invoke colorschemes recursively (or at least, I tried and didn't
succeed).


Best regards,
Tony.
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