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I'm trying to to setup syntax highlighting in VIM to match the whole line only if the first non-whitespace character is "-" or if the last non-whitespace character of the line is ":&...
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I have the following three lines to style comments in my syntax file. Comments start with # and are allowed to be inline or on a seperate line. syn keyword myTodo contained TODO FIXME ...
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I have some simple (default) syntax highlighting, and other colors, in my regular vim. I'd like to try out neovim, so I did the cd && ln -s .vimrc .nvimrc && ln -s .vim .nvim I'm ...
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I have this vimscript: syn region fdocCommand start="^@" end="$" contained syn region fdocComment start="^@" end="^@tangle " contains=fdocCommand keepend " syn region ...
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I've used listchars to mark certain whitespace characters for visual identification, but I am wondering if there is a similar feature to visually mark the indentation level in vim. Something like a ...
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I ran git config --global alias.ci commit --verbose This makes it so running git ci is like running git commit --verbose The --verbose flag shows a diff in the commit message template, which is not ...
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I'm working on adding an automatic highlight for my current line in Vim, that matches the current mode color used in the status line. So far I haven't had much success if finding a way to get what ...
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There was a very useful answer on how to highlight openmp directives in Fortran code (Vim syntax highlighting for multiline fortran openmp directives). So lines like !$omp parallel are no longer ...
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I try to remove the highlighted words with :set nospell command and I can't. Examples: I'm working with vim 7.4 on Archlinux with gnome-shell desktop. Thanks! Any suggestion is accepted :)
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I'm installing the solarized theme for my terminal and vim. I've successfully switched to it for my Terminal (& Tmux), having imported the solarized theme for Terminal. However, I get the ...
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Is it possible to include empty virtual columns in a syn match group? I want to highlight a block of text as though it's in a terminal window by giving it a black background, but I want the "terminal" ...
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I'm trying to create a custom syntax highlighter for MacVim that uses a combination of CSS and PHP, where CSS is static selectors, and sometimes there will be embedded PHP code (very similar to HTML+...
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When editing PHP files that are part of a framework, there's no <?php tag in the beginning of the file. Thus, Vim doesn't recognize the PHP in that file as PHP. Is there a way to fix that?
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If there a syntax region definition, how to get the definition using VimL or Python? eg, below is a definition, how can I get the data start from start syntax region potionString start=/\v"/ skip=/\...
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For example, if I am writing a Vimscript function to operate on Python syntax, it might be useful to know whether a line is regular code, a comment, or enclosed in triple-quotes. I assume that the ...
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I am making changes to an existing C code. If I just want to check my changes, I can easily use vimdiff for that, with old & modified files. What I want is to limit some syntax highlighting to ...
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I want to add custom keywords that should be highlighted in vim. These keywords are for marking comments, not the code. This is what I have in my .vimrc: autocmd Syntax * syntax keyword Important ...
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I'm trying to do a syntax highlight regex in my _vimrc etc to highlight specific commands in comments for a visual cue. The match should be \s followed by either a # or ! then a \s or a \S then ...
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I recently turned on cursorline in my .vimrc: set cursorline hi CursorLine ctermbg=54 cterm=NONE However, it doesn't seem to work very well with syntax highlighting. For example, As you can see on ...
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By default, vim spell checker is code aware, so it doesn't spell-check code parts of the file. In effect, in markdown it considers (pandoc multiline) tables to be codes and thus doesn't spell-check ...
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I'm trying to clean up a colour scheme that I'm making for vim by linking some highlighting groups but I can't get the linking to work. Here is a sample of my vim script: highlight Error ...
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when I do the single slash (/) when typing some arithmetic expression (like val1 / val2), my vim treats it as a comment for multiple lines (/*). The result looks like: I now I can escape it by typing ;...
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I am playing with vim syntax files and using help.vim as a guide to create my own syntax file. Changes I make in my syntax file are correctly applied in a test file but my problem is with creating a ...
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I've got vim setup to jump to the last known cursor position when opening a file, but sometimes that position is in the middle of some javascript or css on a html page, and the syntax highlighting ...
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I am trying to install the TagHighlight vim script. I am using MacVim version 7.4.22 and Mac OS X 10.9.3. I unzip the zip file and then copy into ~/.vim. However, there are no changes when I start ...
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