Change color settings in you complete me

Question

I installed You Complete Me with the help of Vundle in vim. The first time I used it, the suggested words were completely unreadable. They had a dark purple background and a black font color. Then I saw this post on quora and changed my .vimrc now. My .vimrc looks like this at the moment.

set tabstop=2
highlight Comment ctermfg=lightblue
highlight Pmenu ctermfg=2 ctermbg=3 guifg=#ffffff guibg=#000000

set nocompatible              " be iMproved, required
filetype off                  " required

" set the runtime path to include Vundle and initialize
set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
call vundle#begin()

" let Vundle manage Vundle, required
Plugin 'gmarik/Vundle.vim'

Plugin 'Valloric/YouCompleteMe'

" All of your Plugins must be added before the following line
call vundle#end()            " required
filetype plugin indent on    " required

Unfortunately the suggested words are display like this

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I can't read that very well and would like to change it but don't know how. I thought that my current settings would give me white foreground and black background.

After installing this Plugin I also have 4 instead of 2 indents.. I already tried this, but it didn't serve me. How can I change this?

Please don't include multiple unrelated problems in one question. — Ingo Karkat, Apr 14 '15 at 14:04

score 21 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 04 '18 at 15:22

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You are editing the settings for the GUI not for the command line.

highlight Pmenu ctermfg=15 ctermbg=0 guifg=#ffffff guibg=#000000

This would give you a black background and a white foreground in both gvim and the command line.

Color chart for vim colors

Edit: corrected spelling

edited Dec 04 '18 at 15:22

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answered May 03 '15 at 00:12

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this gives me black font color and dark grey background – ZedsWhatSheSaid May 04 '15 at 06:42
Actually I guess I should clarify what you are asking. Are you asking about when the option is selected or when it is in the dropdown? – goesnowhere May 04 '15 at 23:18
Thank you! You made my day! This answer is exactly what I was looking for! :D (btw. https://stackoverflow.com/q/60590376/544721 ctermxx/guixx variables difference for those who like to know) – Grzegorz Wierzowiecki Apr 25 '21 at 19:23

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 14 '15 at 14:04

You've just changed the definition of Pmenu, the highlighting of normal items. There's also PmenuSel for the selected item, which I suspect is what's on your screenshot. (There are even more, check :help hl-Pmenu for the complete list.

Also, note that for those settings to be effective, they must come after any :colorscheme command. I didn't see such in your posted ~/.vimrc, so choosing a different colorscheme (some ship with Vim, many more can be downloaded from vim.org or elsewhere) might be an alternative to tweaking all these colors yourself.

As long as you don't dynamically switch colorschemes, just put the `:hi ...` commands below the line that selects the `:colorscheme` in your .vimrc. If you'd like to switch colorschemes on the fly, you additionally need to execute the `:hi` command(s) via `:autocmd ColorScheme * hi ...`, too. — Ingo Karkat, Apr 14 '15 at 14:26

Change color settings in you complete me

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