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To update (replacing the current version) run webi vim-italics.

Files

These are the files / directories that are created and/or modified with this install:

~/.vimrc
~/.vim/plugins/italics.vim

Cheat Sheet

vim uses background highlighting for italics by default.

Many Terminal color themes use the same color for background highlighting as for the cursor, which makes tracking the cursor difficult.

This swaps to italics to use underlines instead, which works in all themes.

How to install manually

Create the file ~/.vim/plugins/spell.vim. Add the same contents as https://github.com/webinstall/webi-installers/blob/master/vim-italics/italics.vim.

That will look something like this:

" use underlines for italics
" (keeps the cursor visible while moving over italic text in all themes)
highlight htmlItalic gui=italic ctermfg=214

You'll then need to update ~/.vimrc to source that plugin:

" Vim Italics: underlines for italics from webinstall.dev/vim-italics
source ~/.vim/plugins/italics.vim

Troubleshooting

If you still can't see your cursor on italics, or things otherwise look wrong, try moving the source ~/.vim/plugins/italics.vim closer to the top of your config - above other things that may also be modifying the italics behavior.

Example

~/.vimrc:

+ " Vim Italics: underlines for italics from webinstall.dev/vim-italics
+ source ~/.vim/plugins/italics.vim

  " ALE: reasonable defaults from webinstall.dev/vim-ale
  source ~/.vim/plugins/ale.vim

- " Vim Italics: underlines for italics from webinstall.dev/vim-italics
- source ~/.vim/plugins/italics.vim

Or, in some cases, moving it closer to the bottom may help.