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One of the Vim Plugins I use has a bug, causing it to set :syntax spell notoplevel. The bug is easily mitigated if I run the command :syntax spell toplevel after opening a file. However, I'm lazy and ...
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Update: The closest I am able to get is by using an hmtl tagged template string. (This highlighting works even if html is undefined in the file.) But this doesn't work for trying to do something like: ...
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What is the best editor for fish scripts? I mean an editor which can properly highlight, indent and syntax check. I found the vim-fish project, but I am still scratching my head as to how to install ...
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When I write .f90 or .f file I have the problem that vim always highlight the first number of empty columns with red See figure. I have tried to use :noh but did not work. If I use "set list" they ...
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I know how to turn syntax highlighting on and off in vim by running this in the editor: :syntax on/off But I want syntax highlighting to be enabled by default, so I don't have to turn it on every ...
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How do I change syntax color of multiline comment in python source codes? Line hi def link pythonComment Comment in /usr/share/vim/vim82/syntax/python.vim seems to cover only singleline ...
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I write documentation in markdown using ViM and I also put math using the latex $$ symbol (I compile using pandoc). The thing is that ViM syntax wouldn't ignore the underscores _ inside the dollar ...
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I am writing a vim syntax file for a yacc-like language, which contains another language in blocks delimited by braces. My problem stems from the inner language also using braces as part of its own ...
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How to make vim recognize Podfile and podspec file (some file without extension) as ruby file, so that vim can make syntax highlight.
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So I have created my own syntax highlighting file and it works well if there is only one file opened. However, if I do :split otherFile, the other buffer that gets opened does not have syntax ...
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The situation I am in the process of writing a vim syntax file for a language that allows inline comments following this scheme: This is code # and here is comment # but this is code again The ...
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In VIM, I need to perform a simple task - highlight "(" and ")". I can do this easily by issuing two commands: :syn match really_unique_name display "[()]" :hi really_unique_name guifg=#FF0000 But if ...
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I've noticed that certain variable names in Python get flagged up by Vim in blue highlight, whereas others do not. I'm familiar with the concept of reserved words, per this question, but from looking ...
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In VIM text editor, everytime whenever I type ''typedef '', it gets highlighted automatically. How to fix this? I want to turn off word highlighting property in vim.
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My Vim editor auto highlights PHP files (vim file.php), HTML files (vim file.html) and so on. But when I type: vim file and inside it write a Bash script, it doesn't highlight it. How can I tell Vim ...
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I have a custom file type, which contains lots of fields like FieldName: FieldValue I'm trying to create syntax highlighting for this filetype, in nano and vim, such that "Fieldname" ...
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I have some conceal options (syntax match Normal '\.md\]' conceal cchar=]) added in a $HOME/.vim/after/syntax/base.vim. They are not loaded when I open a file. But if i do :source $HOME/.vim/after/...
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I need vim/Gvim to highlight a set of keywords each with mentioned color in all files (it may be a text file, c source file, or anything else). For example TODO, FIXME are highlighted in C files. Like ...
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I am trying to use dracula theme for vim and have installed it successfully using vundle on my gnome-terminal. The issue that I am facing is that the current line and line numbers aren' translucently ...
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I have a file with some subroutines. The syntax is like subroutine sub_name_1 ... endsub /* or optionally */ subroutine sub_name_2 { ... } There are called like call sub_name_1. I can't ...
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I want to create a new vim syntax checker for a new programming language that is not used widely, first i tried to read the code of the follwing plugins neomake, syntastic , and Ale in order to ...
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I am using a setup where I keep a journal in markdown and have latex code. The trouble is that inside the latex code there are signs that are read as markdown operations and this causes vim to draw ...
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My Configurations iTerm2 - with Solarized theme with xterm-256color as Report terminal type. zsh - with theme set to agnoster Solarized vim - My vim theme is solarized, here're the settings: set ...
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I am currently trying to start writing Markdown in Neovim. However, the syntax highlighting is messed up. Specifically, whenever I have a less than sign inside a LaTeX block, everything after it is ...
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This is a sample of the colouring which is provided by the "darkbone.vim" colour scheme (updated): On the "TMP=" line, the "${ }" delimiters are different from the "...
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