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class & function names highlighting in Vim
I just recently set up my Vim environment from Textmate, after becoming addicted to its modal input.
However, syntax highlighting seems to be not so beautiful in Vim. I code in C++ and since the ...
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How to syntax highlight fragments of code in one language embedded in the source code in another language in Vim?
I have a custom XML file format which can contain blocks of code within certain tags.
For example:
<Root>
<Sql> select * from foo </Sql>
<MoreJunk> ... </MoreJunk>...
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HTML syntax highlighting in javascript strings in vim
I don't know if this is possible/sensible, but I was curious to know if I can have my strings in javascript files have html highlighting. I discovered that strings in php could have SQL syntax ...
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How to override default syntax highlight in vim?
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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Vim inconsistently syntax highlighting bash files
When I open some bash script files with vim it sometimes identifies them as conf files, that's okay, I can just correct that by setting the filetype to sh with :setf sh.
That great, except I've ...
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Vim variable syntax highlighting
I'd like to change my vim config file to allow highlighting of only my declared variables, not keywords. This article shows and explains what I mean: Alternate syntax highlighting
I'm a beginner to ...
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Vim syntax highlighting 'else:' for Python
I'm getting annoyed with the default python syntax highlighting in Vim.
It does not highlight the else: statement correctly.
Vim only highlights the else statement if I have some white space between ...
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Changing filetype based on file extention in vim
I want to change the filetype based on file extension in vim.
I have the following code in the my .vimrc
autocmd BufNew,BufNewFile,BufRead *.txt,*.text,*.md,*.markdown setlocal ft=markdown
But when ...
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vim syntax: match only when between other matches
I am trying to create a syntax file for my logfiles. They take the format:
[time] LEVEL filepath:line - message
My syntax file looks like this:
:syn region logTime start=+^\[+ end=+\] +me=e-1
:syn ...
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Set colors for custom syntax keywords in Vim?
I'm using a syntax file in vim that defines a number of filetype-specific syntax keywords. To color files of this type I've also created a colorscheme file for the share directory that attempts to ...
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How to highlight Bash scripts in Vim?
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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Javascript syntax highlighting in vim
Has anyone else found VIM's syntax highlighting of Javascript sub-optimal? I'm finding that sometimes I need to scroll around in order to get the syntax highlighting adjusted, as sometimes it ...
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Turn off highlighting a certain pattern in vim
In vim, I am editing a file of filetype "markdown", but which contains latex math expressions such as $x_i$. Vim's syntax highlighting for markdown thinks the pattern *_* (letter-underscore-letter) is ...
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Vim syntax Highlighting
I have installed vim in Debian 6. I am trying to change color scheme and enable syntax highlighting. But it's not working. I added set background=dark in .vimrc file. But white background is ...
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Syntax highlighting in vim
I'm having trouble reading dark blue on black when I turn on syntax colours in vim.
How do I change some of the default colours or the colours of schemas like:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?...
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Syntax highlighting randomly disappears during file saving
I'm using vim to edit some python files and recently it occurs sporadically that the syntax highlighting disappears after I save the buffer inside vim. I tried to reset syntax on and set filetype=...
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In VIM, is there any way to define syn region for template angle brackets without clashing with less than sign?
As for {,} and [,] and (, ), I really would like to be able to define syntax region for <, > to be used for C++ template usage like the following:
a<b>
But, is there any way to create ...
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VIM highlight matching begin/end
I'm trying to find a plugin that will highlight the matching begin/end statements with Verilog. VIM has it working with curly braces /brackets but it does not work with its begin/end. I want VIM to ...
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Syntax highlight for Sass is not working in Vim
I just downloaded a Vim plugin for Sass syntax highlight.
The instructions say:
install details put it into syntax
directory and add sass filetype
au! BufRead,BufNewFile *.sass
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Highlight SQL inside Python string literals
I have some Python files in which I want to highlight the SQL queries in string literals. Assume that all string literals in those files contain SQL queries.
I saved the following syntax file as ...
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Vim syntax files: add to cterm
Consider a simple text markup language where _underscores denote italics_ and *astrisks denote bold*.
In an imaginary vim syntax file you might have
syntax region italic start='_' end='_' keepend
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Vim syntax highlighting
Alright, this is probably a stupid question, but....
I've got a file of source code in a proprietary language. I want to edit said file with VIM, instead of their crummy editor. I'd like basic syntax ...
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Superpose two vim syntax matches on the same character [duplicate]
I'm defining the following syntax rules in a vimscript:
hi MyBold term=bold gui=bold
hi MyRed ctermfg=red guifg=#ff0000
And later on, I want to apply both highlights to the same character. So ...
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How do I create Vim syntax highlighting rules that are common to all filetypes?
I'm trying to highlight trailing whitespace in vim, regardless of filetype.
I'm able to do it on a per-filetype basis. For example, for HTML:
~/.vim/ftplugin/html.vim
color html
~/.vim/syntax/html....
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Number pane not being highlighted in vim dracula theme
I am using dracula theme for vim and am not able to get the number pane, that is, the side panel which contains the line numbers, to be displayed in a sort of translucent manner. The preview image ...
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