Neovim -- comments in italic

Question

In my init.vim configuration script for "Vim" I configure comments to be in italic like this (credits):

highlight Comment cterm=italic gui=italic

This does not work in init.lua for "Neovim". How can I port this settings to Lua in order to use it in "Neovim"?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 08 '22 at 08:39

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I managed to derive my answer by looking (here). The answer is this:

vim.highlight.create('Comment', {cterm='italic', gui='italic'}, false)

answered Apr 08 '22 at 08:39

71GA

Note that this has to be applied after the color theme! – 71GA Apr 08 '22 at 17:39

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 13 '23 at 19:24

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Using neovim 0.9 here. What actually worked is the following:

vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, 'Comment', { italic=true })

answered Jan 13 '23 at 19:24

Lucas Efe

This could be better than my answer. Note that I had to also add `fg = #ffffff` to the array in order for this to work. It seems that it resets fg color of the comments to the default. – 71GA Jan 13 '23 at 20:06

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