Igor Epstein igorepst

The right way to override any highlighting if you don't want to edit the colorscheme file directly

Generalities first

Suppose you have weird taste and you absolutely want:

your visual selection to always have a green background and black foreground,
your active statusline to always have a white background and red foreground,
your very own deep blue background.

FOREWORDS

I don't mean the snippet at the bottom of this gist to be a generic plug-n-play solution to your search needs. It is very likely to not work for you or even break things, and it certainly is not as extensively tested and genericised as your regular third-party plugin.

My goal, here and in most of my posts, is to show how Vim's features can be leveraged to build your own high-level, low-maintenance, workflows without systematically jumping on the plugins bandwagon or twisting Vim's arm.

	/*
	* Author: Felipe Herranz ([email protected])
	* Contributors:Francesco Verheye ([email protected])
	* Israel Dominguez ([email protected])
	*/
	import java.util.ArrayList;
	import java.util.List;
	import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;

	import android.os.Handler;

	# On slow systems, checking the cached .zcompdump file to see if it must be
	# regenerated adds a noticable delay to zsh startup. This little hack restricts
	# it to once a day. It should be pasted into your own completion file.
	#
	# The globbing is a little complicated here:
	# - '#q' is an explicit glob qualifier that makes globbing work within zsh's [[ ]] construct.
	# - 'N' makes the glob pattern evaluate to nothing when it doesn't match (rather than throw a globbing error)
	# - '.' matches "regular files"
	# - 'mh+24' matches files (or directories or whatever) that are older than 24 hours.
	autoload -Uz compinit

	-- Fuzzy Window Switcher

	_fuzzyChoices = nil
	_fuzzyChooser = nil
	_fuzzyLastWindow = nil

	function fuzzyQuery(s, m)
	s_index = 1
	m_index = 1
	match_start = nil

	[Desktop Entry]
	Version=1.0
	Name=AVD
	Comment=AVD
	Exec=bash -c "DEVICES=$(/home/jason/Android/Sdk/tools/emulator -list-avds 2>&1) && /home/jason/Android/Sdk/tools/emulator @${DEVICES[0]}"
	Icon=/home/jason/Android/Sdk/platforms/android-23/templates/ic_launcher_xhdpi.png
	Terminal=false
	Type=Application
	Categories=Utility;Application;

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	#
	# Convert .itermcolors files to hex colors for html

	import sys
	import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

	def rgb_to_hex(rgb):
	return '#%02x%02x%02x' % rgb

Igor Epstein igorepst

The right way to override any highlighting if you don't want to edit the colorscheme file directly

Generalities first

Instant grep + quickfix