Change syntax color in vim?

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I have syntax highlighting on, but comments are set to dark blue. This hard for me to read against a black terminal. How do I change it so that the comments are colored green instead?

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6 Answers

Probably you just need to tell vim that you have a dark background:

:set background=dark

This should change the highlighting to something better readable.

sth_563380

Take a look at syncolor.vim. You'll find it in /usr/share/vim/vim{version}/syntax/.

Excerpt:

" There are two sets of defaults: for a dark and a light background.
if &background == "dark"
  SynColor Comment  term=bold cterm=NONE ctermfg=Cyan ctermbg=NONE gui=NONE guifg=#80a0ff guibg=NONE
  SynColor Constant term=underline cterm=NONE ctermfg=Magenta ctermbg=NONE gui=NONE guifg=#ffa0a0 guibg=NONE
  SynColor Special  term=bold cterm=NONE ctermfg=LightRed ctermbg=NONE gui=NONE guifg=Orange guibg=NONE

So the first SynColor line looks of interest. I confess I don't know if you can override this, as opposed to changing this file.

Brian_Agnew_129600

If you want to change the color of a comment without changing the background, you can use the highlight command. Vim documentation on :highlight

For example, :hi Comment term=bold ctermfg=Cyan guifg=#80a0ff gui=bold

user_2022060
user_1439380

best way is to change colorscheme to another (lighter) one:

in navigation mode type:

:colorscheme space Ctl+D

and then type the scheme name Enter

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