Getting hilighting in a vim color file

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I'm trying to edit my colour scheme in vim, and I remember when I was using Fedora I could get an easy preview of the colour when I changed it.

If I had a line like:

let ColourAssignment['String']          = {"GUIFG": 'LightYellow', "CTERMFG": '118'}

The word ColourAssignment would get hilighted as the colour I set 'string' to.

I'm using a mac now, but I have the same plugins and .vimrc as I had when using fedora.

Does anyone know what I need to set, or what plugin I could use to get this behavior again?

What version of vim were you using before and now? – Conner Jul 16 '12 at 23:12 — Conner, Jul 16 '12 at 23:12
I believe I was using 7.3 for both. – LeeGauthier Jul 17 '12 at 08:17 — LeeGauthier, Jul 17 '12 at 08:17

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 17 '12 at 07:22

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It's not exactly what you ask for (it highlights the colors themselves, not the highlight group name), but I can highly recommend the Colorizer plugin.

answered Jul 17 '12 at 07:22

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This plugin would be super useful for CSS/Web stuff. Unfortunately I'm hoping to get the colour based off the ctermfg number. – LeeGauthier Jul 17 '12 at 08:47

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 16 '12 at 23:31

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Maybe you want :hi String guifg=LightYellow ctermfg=118 and :syn match String /ColourAssignment/?

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Conner

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 17 '12 at 11:39

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Alternatively, there are online Vim colorscheme editors, such as:

answered Jul 17 '12 at 11:39

Ingo Karkat

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 20 '12 at 07:53

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I found the exact solution I was looking for, it turns out there is a syntax file included with the bandit colour scheme that allows for this functionality.

The repository is: https://github.com/vim-scripts/bandit.vim

answered Jul 20 '12 at 07:53

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Getting hilighting in a vim color file

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