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Change colors in console/virtual terminal

Is there a way to alter all the available colors in console / virtual terminal? By console, I mean what you get after pressing CTRL + ALT + F1 and not anything like xterm or urxvt. So, I guess that ...
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1answer
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How do I get the solarized colour scheme working with gnome-terminal, tmux and vim?

There's a lot of questions around this, but it's because there are so many variables. I had to piece together instructions from many sites before I got this working. First, I could not easily set up ...
2
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1answer
46 views

Manipulate color in VIM

In hlsearch mode, seems that you can set only one color. Now I want to use a script to get multiple colors for multiple keywords, is that possible?
3
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0answers
245 views

ls and vim color on SunOS 5.8/Solaris 8

I want to use ls and vim with color on Sunos 5.8 SunOS 5.8 Generic_117350-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-2500 I have installed ls (GNU coreutils) 6.9 and vim 7.2 In ~/.cshrc: setenv TERM sun-color ...
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455 views

How to change variable color in vim solarized theme?

I have just installed solarized theme for vim from https://github.com/altercation/vim-colors-solarized But the problem for me is that the background stays black and I have the variable names in ...
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1answer
257 views

Loading a color scheme has no effect in Vim

I had selected some really smart looking color schemes for Vim here Following the instruction inside those files I've copied them in my $VIMRUNTIME/colors directory. When Vim is launched in normal ...
2
votes
1answer
315 views

Solarized color definitions in vimrc file

The solarized theme defines some base colors and assigns those to variables, as seen here. I would like to know how I can use these color definitions in my .vimrc file. Currently, I use pathogen to ...
1
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1answer
257 views

Unwanted text highlighting in Vim latex-suite

I have installed vim latex-suite. Whenever I type$$ to get inside math mode, as a side effect, it also highlights the last search term using /exp. What has caused this and how can I avoid this ...
3
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1answer
172 views

Is there a Vim syntax file for ANSI-colored output of CLI apps?

I have quite a lot of Perl scripts which print colored output to the terminal, using Term::ANSIColor. This is the same as when a shell script does e.g. echo -e '\e[1;31mError:\e[0m Your fault.' ...
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How to get VIM to display 256 colors properly

I'm trying to get 256 color theme files to work with VIM under xterm. This is peaksea how it looks for me: How it should look: I've tried following the tips on the wiki page to no avail. set ...
8
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How to have tail -f show colored output with vim?

In this question, Gilles answered Yet another possibility is to run tail -f in an Emacs shell buffer and use Emacs's syntax coloring abilities. Because I'm a vim user, I'd like to do this with ...
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709 views

No syntax coloring in vim for me, but ok for my students

My students get syntax coloring in vim, but I don't! Even when I "syntax on" as a command syntax on or put it in my .vimrc and/or .exrc. The terminal is xterm. I am missing something in vim or is ...
4
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1answer
447 views

How can I search for and highlight multiple strings in VIM?

In VIM, how can I search for multiple strings and have a different color highlight for each match?
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1answer
4k views

How to make Vim display colors as indicated by color codes?

In short, I'm in an effort to replace less with vim (vimpager). I have settings for scripts to spit out colors (and bold and everything nice) whenever they can. less understands the color codes and ...
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red-green color blindness compatible vim theme

I am looking for a vim theme accessible to users with red green color blindness. In particular, the red text on a dark terminal background all but disappears. Do any of you know of a good theme? Or ...