How do I change syntax color of multiline comment in python source codes? Line
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in /usr/share/vim/vim82/syntax/python.vim seems to cover only singleline comments. Meanwhile changing comments in C/C++ seems to work on both single and multilines. But python is more difficult.
There are few places mentioning """ or '''...
As mentioned in the comments, """ and ''' don't mark multiline comments. Depending on the context, they can be called multiline strings, as in:
foo = """bar
baz"""
or documentation strings ("docstrings" for short), as in:
"""foo bar baz"""
which are not "comments" in the common meaning of the word.
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I don't have Vim 8.2 handy (current version is 9.1, consider upgrading) but, in my version, the correct highlight groups for multiline strings are:
PythonString for the whole string, including the opening and closing """ and ''',PythonTripleQuotes for the opening and closing """ and ''',both of which being ultimately linked to String for obvious reasons.
If you really want to highlight docstrings differently from multiline strings, you will have to create your own highlight group because the built-in syntax script doesn't treat them differently. They are all "strings".
But I think you should leave it as-is in order to preserve the semantics of it all.
""" or ''' is referred to as a triple-quoted string. ("""...""" and '''...''' don't have individual names.) The section of the language documentation on string and byte literals mention nonterminals named shortstring and longstring, but those aren't commonly used terms.
"""and'''are not multiline comments, they're multiline strings.