vim-dauber

First: origins of the name.

dauber - noun - a crude or inartistic painter.

Dauber is plugin to change the color of Vim's builtin statusline based on the current mode. It does so in a rather crude and uninspired manner too.

How it Works

Dauber makes use of Vim's User highlight groups (i.e. - User1, User2 ... User9) see :help hl-User1. Use these groups in your statusline config, then define highlight groups for each Vim mode, and Dauber will link them to User1 - User9 when the mode switches.

Configuration

The following variables control Dauber:

• g:dauber_normal_groups
• g:dauber_insert_groups
• g:dauber_replace_groups
• g:dauber_visual_groups
• g:dauber_visual_block_groups
• g:dauber_visual_line_groups

Each of them should be set to a list of the names of nine highlight groups. If you don't want a color set it to the name NONE or something like that.