Vim NERDTree colors

Question

I want to change default blue color of folders

How to set it?

Neils

look in the helpfiles for nerdtree, I believe it's listed there... – Sot

~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree$ grep -r "color" * ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree$ grep -r "cterm" * ~/.vim/bundle/nerdtree$ grep -r "guiterm" * - no results :( – Neils

Answer 1

:hi Directory guifg=#FF0000 ctermfg=red

Kuhlmann

How do you change the color of the "expand" icons (basically the + signs) – Hammered

@Hammered There are two highlight groups for NERDTree "expand" sign, so basically Change "Directory" in the above command to "NERDTreeClosable" and "NERDTreeOpenable" – Thapsus

how can i use this in my .vimrc? i need to set this command every time i open vim – Cianca

@CarlosMartinez put the above in the .vimrc and it will work – Postern

Answer 2

If you want to customize file colors based on extension, I created this plugin. You can use it with vim-devicons, but If you don't have it, you can add this line to your .vimrc and it will highlight the filenames:

let g:NERDTreeFileExtensionHighlightFullName = 1

Clair

Answer 3

Not a heavy vim user, but, I think you can add the following to your .vimrc to highlight the folders/directories in Cyan

highlight Directory ctermfg=cyan

Have only tried this out in MacOS 10.14

Achromatous

Works in "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7' as well – Aluminum

Answer 4

NERDTree doesn't provide such an option but looking at the source and reading about highlight you could come up with some customization.

Jude