Highlight colors

• VM defaults
• Matches highlight
• Selecting a theme

VM defaults

VM default theme is based on your color scheme, if you don't like it you can:

• select a theme
• relink highlight groups

You can load a theme by default by defining:

let g:VM_theme = 'your_chosen_theme'

If you want to change theme, run:

:VMTheme

To relink VM highlight groups:

let g:VM_Mono_hl   = 'DiffText'
let g:VM_Extend_hl = 'DiffAdd'
let g:VM_Cursor_hl = 'Visual'
let g:VM_Insert_hl = 'DiffChange'

g:VM_Mono_hl	highlight in cursor mode
g:VM_Extend_hl	highlight in extend mode (the selections)
g:VM_Cursor_hl	highlight in extend mode (the cursors)
g:VM_Insert_hl	highlight in insert mode (the virtual cursors)

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Matches highlight

VM uses the search register (/) to find matches. While VM is active, hlsearch is turned on, and it shows the current VM patterns, but the highlight of these not-yet selected patterns is the regular Search highlight.

To have a fancier highlight system, set:

let g:VM_highlight_matches = 'value'

Where 'value' is either:

• underline
• red
• a full highlight command (read help :hi), e.g.:

  let g:VM_highlight_matches = 'hi! Search ctermfg=228 cterm=underline'
  let g:VM_highlight_matches = 'hi! link Search PmenuSel'
  

• an empty string if you want the normal Search highlight

Default is underline

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Selecting a theme

There are some themes ready for use, these are samples:

• codedark
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• iceblue
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• purplegray
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• spacegray
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• ocean
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• nord
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• neon
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• paper
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There are also some for light color schemes, but they could be better.