From f64f9aba166295d594e29de42c2bdb27000e76ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jamestthompson3 <jamestthompson3@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 18:21:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add specific highlight groups for virtualtext (#2071)

---
 autoload/ale/virtualtext.vim | 12 ++++++++++--
 doc/ale.txt                  |  6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/autoload/ale/virtualtext.vim b/autoload/ale/virtualtext.vim
index 85a12de6..9fa66217 100644
--- a/autoload/ale/virtualtext.vim
+++ b/autoload/ale/virtualtext.vim
@@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ let g:ale_virtualtext_delay = get(g:, 'ale_virtualtext_delay', 10)
 let s:cursor_timer = -1
 let s:last_pos = [0, 0, 0]
 
+if !hlexists('ALEVirtualTextWarning')
+    highlight link ALEVirtualTextWarning ALEWarning
+endif
+
+if !hlexists('ALEVirtualTextError')
+    highlight link ALEVirtualTextError ALEError
+endif
+
 function! ale#virtualtext#Clear() abort
     if !has('nvim-0.3.2')
         return
@@ -63,9 +71,9 @@ function! ale#virtualtext#ShowCursorWarning(...) abort
         let l:type = get(l:loc, 'type', 'E')
 
         if l:type is# 'E'
-            let l:hl_group = 'ALEError'
+            let l:hl_group = 'ALEVirtualTextError'
         elseif l:type is# 'W'
-            let l:hl_group = 'ALEWarning'
+            let l:hl_group = 'ALEVirtualTextWarning'
         endif
 
         call ale#virtualtext#ShowMessage(l:msg, l:hl_group)
diff --git a/doc/ale.txt b/doc/ale.txt
index 85f6b6f8..0fbdcc1b 100644
--- a/doc/ale.txt
+++ b/doc/ale.txt
@@ -1891,9 +1891,13 @@ g:ale_virtualtext_cursor                                           *g:ale_virtua
 
   Messages can be prefixed prefixed with a string. See |g:ale_virtualtext_prefix|.
 
+  Message appearance can be changed by modifying these highlight groups:
+  |ALEVirtualTextError| |ALEVirtualTextWarning|
+
+
 
 g:ale_virtualtext_delay                                             *g:ale_virtualtext_delay*
-                                                             *b:ale_virtualtext_delay*
+b:ale_virtualtext_delay                                             *b:ale_virtualtext_delay*
   Type: |Number|
   Default: `10`