In VIM how do I change the backbround color of just the QuickFix window?

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Subject says it all: In VIM how do I change the backbround color of just the QuickFix window? Something that can go in a script or the .vimrc.

Also see [Automatically change colorscheme based on FileType](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16692581/automatically-change-colorscheme-based-on-filetype) — Ingo Karkat, Jan 24 '14 at 07:30

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 24 '14 at 04:59

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You can't do it directly, but you could cheat your way to it by using a colorcolumn at each column of text in that window. Of course, you also only get one global color for the colorcolumn, so that might not help much.

answered Jan 24 '14 at 04:59

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 24 '14 at 05:01

Another idea is to use signs. If you place a sign on every single line in the quickfix window, you can set the background color of each sign to color the entire window. Since this is window-local, and the coloring will be incorrect if the number of lines increases, you will also need to re-process the signs on autocmds. WinEnter, QuickFixCmdPost, etc. may be helpful. You could store the number of lines in a window-local variable and check for that variable doesn't exist or doesn't match the lines in the buffer to determine whether to do an update.

In VIM how do I change the backbround color of just the QuickFix window?

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