change default comment color in vim

change default comment color in vim

Submitted by Jitesh Doshi on Tue, 04/09/2013 - 15:56

On Debian systems (and perhaps on other linux distros as well), the foreground color of comments is blue by default. This looks quite unreadable on black background, which is the case for most terminal windows.

dark blue text  unreadable in black background

As you can see, the above is quite unreadable. But the fix is quite simple. Let's say you want to make all comments show in 'green' instead. Just add the following line to your ~/.vimrc (or /etc/vim/vimrc.local if you want to change it for everyone on your linux box).

highlight Comment ctermfg=green

Now the colors look far more readable. See below.

green text readable in black background

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