Thanks for the trick!
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 07:01, Tony Mechelynck
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> On 08/11/08 14:12, François Ingelrest wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The only highlight concerning the wildmenu I'm aware of is 'WildMenu'.
>> This lets me choose how the current match should be highlighted, but I
>> can't set the style of other entries in that menu. AFAICT, Vim
>> automatically uses the highlight style of the status bar.
>>
>> This is annoying, because I like to use colors such as dark grey /
>> white for this kind of things (e.g., completion menu, tabs), so that
>> the current entry is clearly visible. However, to do that, I would
>> have to set the foregound color of the status bar to dark grey,
>> resulting in a status bar not easily readable most of the time (when
>> the wildmenu is not currently used).
>>
>> Is there a solution to this problem?
>
> AFAIK, there isn't; but it's only a problem if you want it to be. The
> selected 'wildmenu' entry is in WildMenu highlight, and the rest in
> StatusLine highlight. You can change them at any time, and the current
> values will be used. In my colorscheme, I alternate the StatusLine
> highlight between two contrasting values, and the WildMenu is set to the
> other setting, as follows:
>
> let s:colors_name = "almost-default"
> [...]
> " display the status line of the active window in a distinctive color:
> " bold black on bright red in the GUI, white on green in the console
> " (where the bg is never bright, and dark red is sometimes an ugly sort
> " of reddish brown).
> hi StatusLine gui=NONE,bold guibg=red guifg=black
> \ cterm=NONE,bold ctermbg=darkgreen ctermfg=white
> hi WildMenu gui=NONE,bold guibg=green guifg=black
> \ cterm=NONE,bold ctermbg=black ctermfg=white
> " make the status line bold-reverse (but B&W) for inactive windows
> hi StatusLineNC gui=reverse,bold
> \ cterm=NONE ctermbg=black ctermfg=lightgrey
> " make the active status line colours alternate between two settings
> " to give a visual notice of the CursorHold/CursorHoldI events
> if ! exists("s:statuslineflag")
> let s:statuslineflag = 0
> endif
> function! ToggleStatusLine()
> if s:statuslineflag
> hi StatusLine
> \ cterm=NONE,bold ctermbg=darkgreen ctermfg=white
> \ gui=NONE,bold guibg=red guifg=black
> hi WildMenu
> \ cterm=NONE,bold ctermbg=black ctermfg=white
> \ gui=NONE,bold guibg=green guifg=black
> else
> hi StatusLine
> \ cterm=NONE,bold ctermbg=black ctermfg=white
> \ gui=NONE,bold guibg=green guifg=black
> hi WildMenu
> \ cterm=NONE,bold ctermbg=darkgreen ctermfg=white
> \ gui=NONE,bold guibg=red guifg=black
> endif
> let s:statuslineflag = ! s:statuslineflag
> endfunction
> exe "augroup" s:colors_name
> au! CursorHold,CursorHoldI * call ToggleStatusLine()
> au! ColorScheme *
> \ if g:colors_name != s:colors_name
> \ | exe "au!" s:colors_name
> \ | endif
> augroup END
> [...]
> " remember the current colorscheme name
> let g:colors_name = s:colors_name
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