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POCustomizing Syntax Highlighting in Vim
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    copied!<p>How I can <strong>keep all the current formatting</strong> for a file type but <strong>add functionality</strong>. </p> <p>I would like to highlight colors in .vim files so that each color is highlighted how the terminal will resolve it. </p> <p>I created a vim.vim file containing:</p> <pre><code>syn keyword yellow yellow containedin=All highlight yellow ctermfg=yellow syn keyword red red containedin=all highlight red ctermfg=red </code></pre> <p>and put it into <code>~/.vim/after/syntax/vim.vim</code></p> <p>As suggested <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1211588/how-to-override-default-syntax-highlight-in-vim/1212024#1212024">here</a>.</p> <p>This has no effect. </p> <hr> <h1>Update</h1> <p>In fact I was mistaken when I said my changes had no effect. If you type <code>yellow</code> by itself on a line it will be highlighted yellow. Unfortunately this does not solve my problem. </p> <p>I added the F3 functionality described by <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2464593/custumizing-syntax-highlighting-in-vim/2473543#2473543">Al</a>. </p> <p>When I f3 over yellow (in the context <code>ctermfg=yellow</code>) it returns:</p> <pre><code>hi&lt;vimHiCtermColor&gt; trans&lt;vimHiCtermColor&gt; lo&lt;vimHiCtermColor&gt; FG:-1 BG:-1 </code></pre> <p>Then <code>:syn list vimHiCtermColor</code> returns:</p> <pre><code>--- Syntax items --- vimHiCtermColor xxx contained lightmagenta darkgray lightgrey darkgrey lightgreen lightgray darkmagenta gray white red grey darkred brown darkblue darkgreen lightblue yellow cyan contained lightcyan lightred black blue green magenta darkcyan darkyellow </code></pre> <p>I checked <code>:syn list darkgray</code> (something I have not defined) to see if it exists: </p> <pre><code>--- Syntax items --- E28: No such highlight group name: darkgray Hit ENTER or type command to continue </code></pre> <p>Where should I go from here? </p>
 

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