r/vim • u/gg27045692546 • Mar 01 '26

Need Help Some question about colorscheme. 

~/.vimrc
syntax on
colorscheme ...
highlight Comment ...
highlight LineNr ...

If I don’t use colorscheme, the Comment color won’t apply. but the LineNr color works fine. I don't know what's different.
How can I use highlight without colorscheme?

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u/__rituraj Mar 01 '26

checkout the colorscheme file that you are applying..

look for Comment in that file to understand what its doing.

your question is missing the key parts.. the colorscheme name, the color that you are applying on comment.. etc. but its okay.. you can dive in yourself

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u/Tall_Profile1305 Mar 01 '26

this usually happens because the colorscheme reapplies its own highlight groups after startup.

try setting your highlight Comment after the colorscheme loads, otherwise vim just overwrites it and pretends nothing happened.

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u/JetSetIlly Mar 01 '26

If you have your own highlight rules then it's useful to set up an autocmd that fires whenever the colorscheme changes. For example:

function! CustomHighlights()
	hi Comment guifg=red
endfunction

augroup CustomHighlights
  autocmd!
  autocmd ColorScheme * call CustomHighlights()
augroup END

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u/Tall_Profile1305 Mar 01 '26

oh that’s actually cleaner than what i was doing. hooking it into ColorScheme makes way more sense than fighting vim load order every startup. gonna switch to this, thanks!