Set Vim bracket highlighting colors
vim
Solution
You can change the colors to, e.g., blue over green:
hi MatchParen cterm=none ctermbg=green ctermfg=blue
Just put it in your .vimrc file.
Basically, `cterm` determines the style, which can be `none`, `underline` or `bold`, while `ctermbg` and `ctermfg` are, as their names suggest, background and foreground colors, so change them as you see fit.
For your case, you may want
hi MatchParen cterm=bold ctermbg=none ctermfg=magenta
Problem
I'm using :set showmatch to highlight the matching bracket or brace when the cursor is over one. I'd like to change the highlight-color so that it's radically different from the cursor color, because I've got the situation shown in the screenshots. When the cursor is over the second brace: And when the cursor is to the immediate-right of the brace: This uses my terminal color scheme, which is taken from Solarized. Unfortunately, it's a bit of a pain to see which highlight is the brace matching and which is the cursor, when the braces are close together. Is there a Vim setting I can use to change the color of that to, say, the bold magenta ANSI? I'm not particularly interested in remapping my ANSI colors within the terminal or shell - I'd like a Vim-specific option, if it exists.