Vim highlighting with solarized color scheme

Question

I have a vim highlight to display whitespace errors in code:

\" Highlight redundant whitespaces and tabs.
highlight RedundantSpaces ctermbg=red
match Redunda         


        

Answer 1

Moving the :highlight after the :colorscheme still doesn't help you when you switch colorschemes in the Vim session.

For that to work, re-define your highlighting via the ColorScheme event:

autocmd ColorScheme * highlight RedundantSpaces ctermbg=red

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BTW, your minimalistic solution has other problems:

1. It does not highlight in split windows.
2. You lose the ability of quickly highlighting custom stuff via :match.

There are several plugins that offer this functionality, in a better way. Mine is called ShowTrailingWhitespace; the plugin page contains links to alternatives.