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How to set background color for Vim's active window only?

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Mar 15, 20264192 views

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A small but visually pleasing feature, and slightly adding to usability, I'd like to have Vim use different background color for the active window. Here's a sketch of what I am after: Normally that vim would have all the background in black, but if only the active window had its own color to highli…

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Heptite, thank you for the idea. I just replace WinEnter and WinLeave autocmd's to add / remove line numbers in front of each line: Now is more stylish to track which window is active.

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How to set background color for Vim's active window only?

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