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How do I mimic the behavior of Doxygen comment highlighting for PC-lint comments? Comments are in the following formats:

/*lint ... */
//lint ...
/* LINTLIBRARY */
/* ARGUSED */
/* VARARGS[N] */ <--- N is a number
/* NOTREACHED */
/* NOSTRICT */
/* FALLTHROUGH */
/* FALLTHRU */
/* PRINTFLIKEN */ <--- N is a number

Ideally highlighting would mimic the behavior of Doxygen comment highlighting.

EDIT: I want to make lint comments highlight like the Doxygen comment in the screenshot. like this

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  • Do you want the above to be simply highlighted as comments or is there additional nested highlighting that you want? If it's the latter, a screen-shot might help.
    – Tumbler41
    Commented Apr 13, 2017 at 14:39
  • @Tumbler41 I want to highlight the listed keywords in the comments just like Doxygen commands are highlighted.
    – thetic
    Commented Apr 13, 2017 at 15:09
  • Maybe I'm in the minority, but I don't know how Doxygen commands are highlighted, and a quick google search produced nothing useful. Could you provide a screenshot with the appropriate highlighting you're looking for?
    – Tumbler41
    Commented Apr 13, 2017 at 15:18

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Did you have a look at syntax/doxygen.vim? This is where doxygen highlighting is defined.

What you need to do then, is to add a file for pclint in ~/.vim/syntax/, and a syntax rule inspired from the one in syntax/synload.vim which is:

au Syntax c,cpp,cs,idl,java,php,datascript
    \ if (exists('b:load_doxygen_syntax') && b:load_doxygen_syntax)
    \   || (exists('g:load_doxygen_syntax') && g:load_doxygen_syntax)
    \   | runtime! syntax/doxygen.vim
    \ | endif

See :h mysyntaxfile

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