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POVim - change status line colours in .vimrc?
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copied!<p>From this question : <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/9065941/364088">How can I change vim status line colour?</a> I learnt how to change the status line colouring, like this :</p> <pre><code>hi StatusLine ctermbg=3 ctermfg=4 </code></pre> <p>That's fine but how can I do that for every window, all the time rather than having to apply the command for each new window that I open. I would expect to do this in .vimrc but I can't work out how to .</p> <p>I'm running vim in a terminal not a gui; I'm using desert as a colorscheme.</p> <hr> <p>ANSWER!: After the answers offered by Ingo and Kent reassured me that I was doing the right thing it still didn't work. Then I discovered I had a line in my vimrc which read </p> <p>set background = dark</p> <p>I'm not sure why that was in there but when I commented it out I got the status line colours I wanted.</p> <hr> <p><strong>NOT THE ANSWER !</strong>: Hmm OK. I've just discovered that making that change to .vimrc does indeed give me the right colours when I was editting vimrc but when I edit python files the status colours are gone. I'm guessing this is something to do with filetypes=on ?</p> <p>Either way I'll have to re-ask this question when I have more time to think about it but it seems the 'set background = dark' thing was a problem but it's not the entire solution.</p> <p>For what's worth my vimrc looks like this :</p> <pre> colorscheme desert autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.py syntax on autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.py set ai autocmd BufRead *.py set smartindent cinwords=if,elif,else,for,while,with,try,except,finally,def,class set tabstop=4 set expandtab set shiftwidth=4 filetype indent on "GLAUCON START :set ignorecase "make searches case insensitive by default :set incsearch :set hlsearch " Returns true if paste mode is enabled function! HasPaste() if &paste return 'PASTE MODE ' en return '' endfunction " Always show the status line set laststatus=2 " Format the status line set statusline=\ %{HasPaste()}%F%m%r%h\ %w\ \ CWD:\ %r%{getcwd()}%h\ \ \ Line:\ %l hi StatusLine ctermbg=3 ctermfg=4 "set background=dark "GLAUCON END </pre>

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