Comments keyword are damn highlighted in Macvim/terminal vim and keeps on irritating me. I am not a pro in customizing vim, but really want to get rid of them and have subtle grey keywords
You need to find out which syntax group causes the highlighting. :syn list shows all active groups, but it's easier when you install the SyntaxAttr.vim - Show syntax highlighting attributes of character under cursor plugin. When you have the name of the offending syntax group, you can investigate where it comes from; (the last lines of) :scriptnames may help.
One solution in your case would be linking the syntax groups to the original Comment group, so that the distinction is lost. This can be done in ~/.vimrc:
:hi link FoundSyntaxGroupHere Comment
Comments were highlighted because of vim javascript plugin and by setting following inside .vimrc file, i am able to stop my comments from getting highlighted
let g:javascript_ignore_javaScriptdoc="1
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Vim has a tonne of highlighting built in, and plug-ins add more. Highlighting is applied for various reasons, including code syntax, spelling, indenting, search, coding errors and standards, and so on. Because there is limited options for highlighting, there are a few highlights that look the same - in particular, code errors, and spelling mistakes are both underlined red (in my colourscheme).
Is there any way of asking vim "What highlighting rules are being applied to the character under the cursor?"
To find out which syntax group causes the highlighting. :syn list shows all active groups, but it's easier when you install the SyntaxAttr.vim - Show syntax highlighting attributes of character under cursor plugin. When you have the name of the offending syntax group, you can investigate where it comes from; (the last lines of) :scriptnames may help.
I have created a syntax file for some AnB-files for vim and while it does load the syntax highlighting and highlight everything I want it to highlight, it seems to highlight some unwanted stuff as well.
The images show both my highlight file and the AnB file and the problem is:
The word "Elgamel", the characters "g" and "h" (any single lower-case letters) and the words "M1" and "M2" (any single upper-case letter followed by an integer) are highlighted with an unwanted magenta color. Anyone knows what to do here? I tried searching for the problem on both google and stackoverflow, but I couldn't find any similar questions (I might not search using the correct terms, though :D)
Syntax file: http://i.imgur.com/bYoAQcu.png
AnB file: http://i.imgur.com/FOtccXJ.png
This looks like error highlighting from the spell checker.
:set nospell
should then turn it off. You can determine which syntax groups get spell checked via :syntax spell, see :help :syn-spell. Usually, you use enable spelling in comments, etc. by added contains=#Spell.
Here's a tip for syntax script development: When you need to find out which syntax group causes the highlighting. :syn list shows all active groups, but it's easier when you install the SyntaxAttr.vim - Show syntax highlighting attributes of character under cursor plugin.
You can use the plugin HiKinkTrace to determine the highlighting group for the offending text, that should help you to narrow it down.
This is a screen of vim editing .bash_profile. It seem to have used some weird highlighting that I didn't explicitly turn on (e.g. around GaF)
using nohl doesn't help since I didn't initiate a search. I also tried using 'syntax off', but that just made all the font/text colours white, but the highlights were still in place.
Anyone know what this is, or how to turn it off?
Thanks
remove all highlighting.
hi clear
you can find out the group name and
hi clear group
to disable highlighting on one group
You need to find out which syntax group causes the highlighting. :syn list shows all active groups, but it's easier when you install the SyntaxAttr.vim - Show syntax highlighting attributes of character under cursor plugin. When you have the name of the offending syntax group, you see to which highlight group this links to. Then check your colorscheme for its definition:
:highlight <groupname>
For me, I had an issue like this every time I opened the help window for any command. As the user #snowbound said in the comments, doing :set nospell solved the issue.
I want to expand on Kent and Ingo Karkat's answers for those that don't wish to install a plugin.
To find out the name of the highlight group in questions, you can use this:
" call `:exec SynGroup()` to show the highlight group under the cursor
function! SynGroup()
let l:s = synID(line('.'), col('.'), 1)
echo synIDattr(l:s, 'name') . ' -> ' . synIDattr(synIDtrans(l:s), 'name')
endfun
(My vimscript is bad, and I copied this from somewhere on the internet long ago. Thank you to that person.)
Anyway, as Kent said, you can use
hi clear <group>
to disable the highlighting for that group.
For example, :exec SynGroup() in vimscript comments gives you
vimLineComment -> Comment
Then you can use
hi clear Comment
To remove the highlighting.
I have a problem with search highlighting in vim. I have used it before but currently it does not work at all.
I have entered :set hlsearch, which is also in my .vimrc file.
I have entered :set hlsearch? and the result is hlsearch, indicating that I have successfully turned the option on. (right?)
I am running vim and not vi, so that is not the problem.
I have searched around but only found people asking about turning OFF search highlighting.
I would appreciate any input as this has been driving me nuts. Thanks!
Edit: highlighting also doesn't work for spellcheck, so evidently it's something global about highlighting.
When you have problems with multiple highlightings (like search and spell in your case), first check the defined highlightings with
:hi
If any groups are wrong or off, check your :colorscheme, and maybe try another.
In the console, color problems are often related to the number of available colors, a hairy problem. Check with
:set t_Co?
Another good tool for checking problems with individual syntax items is the SyntaxAttr.vim - Show syntax highlighting attributes of character under cursor plugin.
I'm using Vim to edit LaTeX files and it used to automatically highlight these words and was a great help. I also have :set spell to highlight spelling mistakes and I had added TODO, FIXME and XXX to the spell-good list (zg). Recently, I did something I can't recall/reproduce and broke this. I still get LaTeX keywords like begin, section, etc. highlighted, but not these ones.
Searching online only leads to people complaining about these words being highlighted and they turn it off by issuing :syntax clear Todo. I have the exact opposite issue—I want it turned back on. Can someone clue me on how to proceed?