How do I change the unused background color in vim?

highlight, vim

Solution

That section is controlled by the highlight group NonText. So you can add the following line after your colorscheme line to set the background color to blue.

highlight NonText ctermbg=blue

Of course change blue to whatever color you want. Also if you are in gvim you will want to use `guibg=` to set the background color.

Problem

How do you change the unused / bottom portion of the vim editor? The picture will hopefully clarify my terrible description :).

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