Advanced Color Scheme Customization and Syntax Highlighting Management in Nvim

|:syn-sync|. Some syntax files have a way to make it look further back, see the help for the specific syntax file. For example, |tex.vim| for the TeX syntax. ============================================================================== *06.3* Different colors *:syn-default-override* If you don't like the default colors, you can select another color scheme. In the GUI use the Edit/Color Scheme menu. You can also type the command: > :colorscheme evening "evening" is the name of the color scheme. There are several others you might want to try out. Look in the directory $VIMRUNTIME/colors. When you found the color scheme that you like, add the ":colorscheme" command to your |init.vim| file. You could also write your own color scheme. This is how you do it: 1. Select a color scheme that comes close. Copy this file to your own Vim directory. For Unix, this should work: > !mkdir -p ~/.config/nvim/colors !cp $VIMRUNTIME/colors/morning.vim ~/.config/nvim/colors/mine.vim < This is done from Vim, because it knows the value of $VIMRUNTIME. 2. Edit the color scheme file. These entries are useful: cterm attributes in a color terminal ctermfg foreground color in a color terminal ctermbg background color in a color terminal gui attributes in the GUI guifg foreground color in the GUI guibg background color in the GUI For example, to make comments green: > :highlight Comment ctermfg=green guifg=green < Attributes you can use for "cterm" and "gui" are "bold" and "underline". If you want both, use "bold,underline". For details see the |:highlight| command. 3. Tell Vim to always use your color scheme. Put this line in your |vimrc|: > colorscheme mine If you want to see what the most often used color combinations look like, use this command: > :runtime syntax/colortest.vim You will see text in various color combinations. You can check which ones are readable and look nice. ============================================================================== *06.4* With colors or without colors Displaying text in color takes a lot of effort. If you find the displaying too slow, you might want to disable syntax highlighting for a moment: > :syntax clear When editing another file (or the same one) the colors will come back. If you want to stop highlighting completely use: > :syntax off This will completely disable syntax highlighting and remove it immediately for all buffers. See |:syntax-off| for more details. *:syn-manual* If you want syntax highlighting only for specific files, use this: > :syntax manual This will enable the syntax highlighting, but not switch it on automatically when starting to edit a buffer. To switch highlighting on for the current buffer, set the 'syntax' option: > :set syntax=ON < ============================================================================== *06.5* Further reading |usr_44.txt| Your own syntax highlighted. |syntax| All the details. ============================================================================== Next chapter: |usr_07.txt| Editing more than one file Copyright: see |manual-copyright| vim:tw=78:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:

This section describes how to create and use custom color schemes in Nvim, detailing the process of copying an existing scheme, modifying color attributes, and setting the custom scheme in the init.vim file. It also covers how to temporarily or permanently disable syntax highlighting to improve performance, and how to enable syntax highlighting manually for specific files. The section concludes with references to further documentation on syntax highlighting.