"Using Neovim's floating window to break bad habits"

[pyrho]

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[bsjaramillo]

Hi i readed yout post, how can i change the background color or set colorscheme for the window ?

[statox]

@bsjaramillo You can't set a colorscheme for a specific window. What you can do is to play with the highlighting as I showed in the article. You will need to find back this line and change the highlighting group used for Normal:

call nvim_win_set_option(win, 'winhl', 'Normal:ErrorFloat')

For example you could define your own highlighting group and use it like this:

highlight CustomFloatingWindow ctermbg=11 guibg=yellow ctermfg=10 guifg=green
call nvim_win_set_option(win, 'winhl', 'Normal:CustomFloatingWindow')

You get something quite ugly but then you just have to tweak the colors:

Some interesting resources:

• :h :highlight
• :h highlight-args
• :h 'winhl'
• How do you change the background color for only one window?