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David542
David542

Reputation: 110163

How to change the entire background of vim

I am using a colorscheme that defaults to using a grey-ish background on unoccupied lines, for example:

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What is the colorscheme entry that determines what the background will be in unused lines, and how would I change that to just being white?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 421

Answers (1)

z atef
z atef

Reputation: 7679

Background of unused lines is controlled/set by Highlight command 

:help :hi


12. Highlight command                   *:highlight* *:hi* *E28* *E411* *E415*

There are three types of highlight groups:
- The ones used for specific languages.  For these the name starts with the
  name of the language.  Many of these don't have any attributes, but are
  linked to a group of the second type.
- The ones used for all syntax languages.
- The ones used for the 'highlight' option.

You can see all the groups currently active with this command: 

:so $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/hitest.vim


Highlighting groups for various occasions
-----------------------------------------
SpecialKey      SpecialKey
NonText         NonText
Directory       Directory

~

You can set the color of unused lines as follow: 

:hi NonText ctermbg=BlACK

Example:

Exampel:

Set to :hi NonText ctermbg=NONE for no color

Upvotes: 2

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