On 19/05/10 09:34, Ajay Jain wrote:
Hi,
I am not able to see any color when I select a line using Shift-V.
Similarly if I select a few lines using mouse, I do not see any color
there as well. I believe I need to change hi Visual .. However, I have
tried various colors but of no use. What is the right way?
Thanks,
Ajay.
To see colors with or without Shift-V you need at least ":syntax on" in
your vimrc. (":filetype plugin on", or even ":filetype plugin indent
on", is also useful.) If you source the vimrc_example.vim it does it all
for you.
With those set, I cannot reproduce your problem: in console mode the
Visual highlight uses reverse-video, and the background takes up the
colours normally used by the text. In GUI mode, the Visual highlight has
a grey background (LightGrey, it is called) and the foreground text
colours are still visible.
I tested it by bringing up the help (using F1) and then hitting Shift-v
for linewise Visual: the name of the file at left and the Vim version in
the middle are still different colours than the rest, with or without
the Visual highlight.
The default Visual highlight is
:hi Visual term=reverse cterm=reverse guibg=LightGrey
and it's good enough as it is.
Of course if you have set a color scheme it may change the Visual
highlight to something which won't let you see the underlying text
colours. You can see the current colour and where it was set, by using
:verbose hi Visual
(except than on very old Vim versions, :verbose won't tell you were a
highlight was set).
Which version are you using? (I'm on Linux, currently testing the first
advance versions of Vim 7.3a with GTK2 GUI, but in 7.2.xxx I saw the
same thing.)
Best regards,
Tony.
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