 Tip #263: color active line
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June 18, 2002 7:05 |
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Armin Rehm ([email protected]) |
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as of Vim: |
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6.0 |
This tip shows how to color the active line, the line in which the cursor is, for better reading.
You should try possibility 2 before 1, IMHO it is mostly usable.
possibility 1:
:au! CursorHold * let @/ = '\%' . line('.') . 'l.*'
:set ut=500
explanation:
After 500 ms of waiting for you to hit a key, vim sets the search register to a pattern that matches the current line.
problem:
Register / holds the search pattern, so you cannot have color the active line and search.
Therefore another solution:
possibility 2:
:highlight CurrentLine guibg=darkgrey guifg=white (or whatever colors you want)
:au! Cursorhold * exe 'match CurrentLine /\%' . line('.') . 'l.*/'
:set ut=100
explanation:
This solution uses 'match' to highlight a string, it does not interface with the current search pattern.
addition:
Turning the highlighning off:
:au! Cursorhold
:match none
The order of these commands are important. If :match none is executed first, the autocommand would
almost immediately execute another match command.
references to vim help:
:help Cursorhold
:help 'ut'
:help /\%l
:help "/
:help \%
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