On 11:12 Sun 30 Sep , Dotan Cohen wrote: > Where in the fine manual is it mentioned how to change the colour of > the cursor and the colour of the matching parenthesis / bracket for > all file types? I have tried ":h cursor color" and several other > phrases, the only relevant one that I found it "h color" which did not > lead me to the answer. I have tried "highlight MatchParen cterm=bold > ctermfg=red ctermbg=blue" but this did not change the colour of the > matching parenthesis or bracket. > > It seems that no matter what I define in .vimrc, VIM still uses the > reverse colours of the item (swap background and foreground) for the > cursor, and a cyan background for the matching parenthesis / bracket. > > -- > Dotan Cohen
In vim (running in uxterm terminal) I use the following command to change the color of the cursor: :!echo -ne "\033]12;midnightblue\007"<CR> I have several maps to different colors, setup like this: map @1 :!echo -ne "\033]12;midnightblue\007"<CR><CR> but there is the Cursor highlight group (:help hl-Cursor) which can be used (here it doesn't work in vim, but it works in gvim). To change the matching parent you have to play with MatchParen (:help hl-MatchParen and also :help pi_paren.txt). For example to get black on white matching paren (in both vim and gvim) you can use: hi MatchParen ctermfg=black ctermbg=white guifg=black guifg=white Best regards, Marcin Szamotulski -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
