Changing error highlight color used by syntastic

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How can the highlight color used by vim syntastic to mark the errors/warnings in code be changed. The error highlighting is enabled by default and can be changed using g:syntastic_enable_highlighting variable.

See also: https://stackoverflow.com/q/30501271/1356754 – Brandon Apr 26 '21 at 03:25 — Brandon, Apr 26 '21 at 03:25

score 25 · Accepted Answer · edited May 05 '17 at 01:02

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You can add these lines to your ~/.vimrc after the last colorscheme line:

hi SpellBad ctermfg=www ctermbg=xxx guifg=#yyyyyy guibg=#zzzzzz
hi SpellCap ctermfg=www ctermbg=xxx guifg=#yyyyyy guibg=#zzzzzz

with www/xxx three digit colors taken from this palette and #yyyyyy/#zzzzzz whatever hexadecimal color you want.

You can also edit the relevant lines in your colorscheme.

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answered Jul 16 '13 at 14:36

romainl

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Oops. The perils of copy/pasting. – romainl Jul 18 '13 at 07:07

score 12 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 16 '13 at 13:19

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The Syntastic plugin defines two highlight groups:

highlight link SyntasticError SpellBad
highlight link SyntasticWarning SpellCap

You should be able to override this by putting similar lines in your config after Syntastic is loaded using different highlight groups from :highlight.

answered Jul 16 '13 at 13:19

Randy Morris

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Thanks! I just missed out `SyntasticError` and `SyntasticWarning`. In the doc it only mentions `SyntasticErrorSymbol` and `SyntasticErrorLine` (same for warnings) – system64 Jul 17 '13 at 07:16

Changing error highlight color used by syntastic

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