Nerdtree: Ability to theme NERDTree's background color

[jordwalke]

I'd like to be able to control the background color of NERDTree - not just the background color of text, but the entire lines. Currently it seems to always match Normal.

[danstn]

+1

[jordwalke]

Does anyone know of any hacks that would make this work?

[jordwalke]

This could get you close:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8415828/vim-dim-inactive-split-panes

But it only changes the color of the NERDTree file/directory lines, and not the empty space below it (because the empty space presumably has ~ characters - if you could pad those lines with empty space it would work).

[PhilRunninger]

You're asking to highlight negative space. Chances are this will severely impact scrolling, which can already happen in large directories. We will not be implementing this.