Vim highlighting with solarized color scheme

Question

I have a vim highlight to display whitespace errors in code:

" Highlight redundant whitespaces and tabs.
highlight RedundantSpaces ctermbg=red
match RedundantSpaces /\s\+$\| \+\ze\t\|\t/

Which displays trailing whitespace problems like this:

However, i've recently started using the solarized color scheme and I am not able to get these highlights to display.

I've tried changing the color names to no avail. The relevant part of my (simple) .vimrc says:

syntax enable
set background=dark
colorscheme solarized

Gownsman

Where are you calling the highlight? – Backscratcher

In my .vimrc? (not sure if I understand the question) – Gownsman

Before or after you call colorscheme solarized? – Backscratcher

Before, I think thats it..thanks! – Gownsman

Answer 1

Moving the :highlight after the :colorscheme still doesn't help you when you switch colorschemes in the Vim session.

For that to work, re-define your highlighting via the ColorScheme event:

autocmd ColorScheme * highlight RedundantSpaces ctermbg=red

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BTW, your minimalistic solution has other problems:

1. It does not highlight in split windows.
2. You lose the ability of quickly highlighting custom stuff via :match.

There are several plugins that offer this functionality, in a better way. Mine is called ShowTrailingWhitespace; the plugin page contains links to alternatives.

Witkowski