Vim Configure Line Number Coloring

Question

I'm looking for a way to configure the color used for line numbering (as in: :set nu) in Vim. The default on most platforms seems to be yellow (which is also used for some highlighted tokens). I would like to color the line numbers a dim gray; somewhere in the vicinity of #555. I'm not picky though, any subdued color would be acceptable.

Answer 1

Try:

help hl-LineNr

I found this through:

help 'number'

which is the way to get help on the 'number' option, instead of the :number command.

To actually change the displayed colour:

:highlight LineNr ctermfg=grey

This would change the foreground colour for LineNr on a character terminal to grey. If you are using gVim, you can:

:highlight LineNr guifg=#050505

Answer 2

To change the line numbers permanently add the below to your .vimrc

highlight LineNr term=bold cterm=NONE ctermfg=DarkGrey ctermbg=NONE gui=NONE guifg=DarkGrey guibg=NONE

Of course you change the ctermfg and guifg to whatever color you want.

Answer 3

In MacVim (with Vim 7.3 at it's core) I've found CursorLineNr to work:

hi CursorLineNr guifg=#050505

Answer 4

I didn't like the colors provided by the selected color scheme so I modified the color of the line numbers this way:

colorscheme trivial256    " for light background
hi LineNr       term=bold cterm=bold ctermfg=2 guifg=Grey guibg=Grey90