my first hunch would be to define a custom mode for the log window, then apply syntax hightlighting rules for that mode

Didn't know one could do that! 💡

Define custom modes, that is

:h winhightlight might help you more directly if you use neovim

this stackoverflow might help too https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/29093/how-do-you-change-the-background-color-for-only-one-window

🎉 autocmd BufEnter conjure-log-*.cljc setlocal winhighlight=Normal:CocListWhiteBlack Thanks for the pointers, @U051SS2EU

nice

there might be a gotcha here if you were to go to that window and :b a different buffer in it - it would still have the old highlighting right?

maybe your user flow would never do that

That's for Neovim . Looks like vim will be a bit different.

Yeah, I just picked the first au event that was "good enough", since I don't know them all that well 🙂

> vim will be a bit different ... but definitely still doable.

I think that's intrinsically an issue with using an autocmd to set a specific window bg, as opposed to using a custom filetype with custom highlight rules

but I think making a new filetype / highlighting ruleset is probably overengineering here

Yeah. I'm quite happy with a quick hack 🙂