Re: Help can anybody tell me my search string background color need to be change

1. when I do :verbose set hlsearch  , it gives or highlight all the string with background to yellow and foreground white is all search strings.

2. help hlsearch // what to see in it ,i am not able to get points from help ?

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 8:50 PM Gary Johnson <garyjohn@spocom.com> wrote:

On 2020-04-27, Kunal Chauhan wrote:
> Hi  tim,
>
> It is not working for me. 
> this is giving error "hi Search term=reverse ctermbg=yellow ctermfg=black guibg
> =yellow guifgi=black  " iillegal argument last one argument I corrected 
> but still it is not working no change on my vim editor.
>  1.I am using mobax term and under which I am using vim.
> 2. my vim background color is black and foreground text is white.
> 3. I search the text , then cursor come on text found and then press shift +* 
> but it did not highligh the whole word only first character is highlighted.

What is your 'hlsearch' setting?

    :verbose set hlsearch?

It defaults to off but must be on for highlighting to be applied to
highlight the entire text of a search match.  See

    :help 'hlsearch'

HTH,
Gary

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Thanks with Regards!

Kunal Chauhan

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