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Sebi
Sebi

Reputation: 4532

vim syntax highlighting

How can I change the syntax highlighting in vim for C/C++/PHP in particular? Can I also change the background color so it won't be the same as the shell's?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1117

Answers (2)

lzap
lzap

Reputation: 17173

Before you start installing various plugins, check out pre-installed color schemes that ships with your Vim. In my case I have many of them:

# rpm -ql vim vim-common | grep color
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/README.txt
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/blue.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/darkblue.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/default.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/delek.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/desert.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/elflord.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/evening.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/koehler.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/morning.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/murphy.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/pablo.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/peachpuff.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/ron.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/shine.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/slate.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/torte.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/zellner.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/ftplugin/dircolors.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/colortest.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/dircolors.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/syncolor.vim
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/colors
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/colors

To change it just use this:

colorscheme darkblue

Also you can download color schemes and just drop them into your VIMRC subdirectory "colors" and load them the same way. I like this one for example: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

And of course, you can modify those color schemes. Just copy the "default.vim" (or the one you like) to your VIMRC/colors and edit it to change colors you want.

Upvotes: 3

ddoor
ddoor

Reputation: 5973

You have to give it a syntax file to load and play around with it:

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1571

To enable it (in case you don't know) its :set syntax

For info on changing vim's background check here:

Setting the VIM background colors

Upvotes: 1

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