VIM: change vim commit message colo

You can change by modify gitcommit.vim

You can find your gitcommit.vim in syntax/ dir.

you can easily find vim dir by :echo $VIMRUNTIME inside your vim.

Inside gitcommit.vim, you have to find gruop you want to change.

In my setting, it’s gitcommitSelectedType. Here’s gitcommitSelectedType match - it use \t\@<=[[:lower:]][^:]*[[:lower:]]: for matching ` modified: ` and ` new file: ` in commit template.

syn match   gitcommitSelectedType	"\t\@<=[[:lower:]][^:]*[[:lower:]]: "he=e-2	contained containedin=gitcommitComment nextgroup=gitcommitSelectedFile skipwhite

For simple example, I clear gitcoomitSelectedType and add new match for gitcommitNew and gitcommitModified. (simple match for example. You can use regex for your own)

syn clear gitcommitSelectedType
" match for new file and modified
syn match gitcommitNew	"\t\@<=new file: " contained containedin=gitcommitComment nextgroup=gitcommitSelectedType skipwhite
syn match   gitcommitModified	"\t\@<=modified: "he=e-2	contained containedin=gitcommitComment nextgroup=gitcommitModified skipwhite

" give other color type for these group
hi link gitcommitNew	Type
hi link gitcommitModified	Special
" add two groups we made to gitcommitSelected
syn region  gitcommitSelected	start=/^# Changes to be committed:/ end=/^#$\|^#\@!/ contains=gitcommitHeader,gitcommitHead,gitcommitSelectedType,gitcommitNew,gitcommitModified fold

Maybe there’s better solution - not using group but using exception after gitcommitSelectedType - but I don’t know how. Maybe you can find it.

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Also, it will added for future. Check here