Display Tabs in Vim in Grey
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Displaying tabs using listchar makes tabs visible – makes it different from leading white spaces. But that’s too visible to stand.
I want to make it visible but more “transparent”.
TL;DR
Set the color for SpecialKey in vim since that’s the color group for them.
highlight SpecialKey ctermfg=DarkGrey guifg=DarkGrey
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Advanced
Highlight the trailing whitespaces!!
highlight TrailSpaceColor ctermbg=DarkRed guibg=DarkRed
match TrailSpaceColor /\s\+$/
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| Trailing white spaces are highlighted as red |
Refs
- https://stackoverflow.com/a/24233486
- https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/6136/how-to-dim-characters-from-set-list
