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Asked: 2026-05-25T01:45:55+00:00

How would one go about modifying the colour of vim’s tab bar? I have

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How would one go about modifying the colour of vim’s tab bar?

I have tried using

:hi TabLineFill ctermbg=N

which does change the colour of the tab bar’s background to the colour that ‘N’ signifies, but this is all I have managed to glean from Googling. I had a look at :help cterm-colors, but I did not gain much more of an understanding from it.

Would I be able to use this highlight facility to change the colour of an active tab’s foreground and background, and an inactive tab’s foreground and background? If so, how would I go about doing this?

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    You can do the following, for example:

    :hi TabLineFill ctermfg=LightGreen ctermbg=DarkGreen
:hi TabLine ctermfg=Blue ctermbg=Yellow
:hi TabLineSel ctermfg=Red ctermbg=Yellow

    This line affects the window counter per tab:

    :hi Title ctermfg=LightBlue ctermbg=Magenta

    Garish colours chosen to highlight what each of the items changes.

    I find that looking at $VIMRUNTIME/colors/*.vim really helps when playing with highlighting.

    Note that these change the colours for Vim running in a console. If you want to change the colours for GVim, you need to use guibg, guifg, et cetera. For example:

    :hi TabLineFill guifg=LightGreen guibg=DarkGreen ctermfg=LightGreen ctermbg=DarkGreen
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