Vim highlighting with solarized color scheme

Question

I have a vim highlight to display whitespace errors in code:

" Highlight redundant whitespaces and tabs.
highlight RedundantSpaces ctermbg=red
match RedundantSpaces /\s\+$\| \+\ze\t\|\t/

Which displays trailing whitespace problems like this: White space errors highlighted in red

However, i've recently started using the solarized color scheme and I am not able to get these highlights to display. solarized with no highlights

I've tried changing the color names to no avail. The relevant part of my (simple) .vimrc says:

syntax enable
set background=dark
colorscheme solarized

Where are you calling the highlight? – Conner Aug 07 '12 at 01:55 — Conner, Aug 07 '12 at 01:55
In my .vimrc? (not sure if I understand the question) – Dan Poltawski Aug 07 '12 at 02:28 — Dan Poltawski, Aug 07 '12 at 02:28
Before or after you call `colorscheme solarized`? – Conner Aug 07 '12 at 04:12 — Conner, Aug 07 '12 at 04:12
Before, I think thats it..thanks! – Dan Poltawski Aug 07 '12 at 08:06 — Dan Poltawski, Aug 07 '12 at 08:06

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 30 '12 at 14:22

Moving the :highlight after the :colorscheme still doesn't help you when you switch colorschemes in the Vim session.

For that to work, re-define your highlighting via the ColorScheme event:

autocmd ColorScheme * highlight RedundantSpaces ctermbg=red

BTW, your minimalistic solution has other problems:

It does not highlight in split windows.
You lose the ability of quickly highlighting custom stuff via :match.

There are several plugins that offer this functionality, in a better way. Mine is called ShowTrailingWhitespace; the plugin page contains links to alternatives.

Vim highlighting with solarized color scheme

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