Question

I’m using VIM in red hat 5, with the black background and green letters. However, I don’t like the color schema for strings (“”) nor reserved C++ key variables (int for example it is in dark green). Could someone please give me some suggestions how could I change those default colors?
I know, for example, to change the comment collor I do

hl Comment ctermfg=yellow

Answer 1

Type :hi, then hit Enter. A list of highlighting definition will show.
The C++ groups start with c.

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int is a cType. Try:

:hi cType ctermfg=yellow

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You can put your custom highlighting commands into vimrc(after colorscheme name and syntax on).