I want to highlight all words that have been matched in another syntax region. Using something similar to regex capture groups, for example given a file:
{highlightme} asda asasd asd asd as hightlightme asd adsasd asd
asdaskj highlightme weqeqw (highlightme) {highlightme}
I want to be able to highlight all highlightme
IF any one of the highlightme
is surrounded with curly braces. What I have so far:
syntax region testSurr start=/{/ end=/}/ contains=testKey nextgroup=testAfter
syntax match testKey /\v\w+/ contained
syntax region testAfter start=/\v\_.*/ end=/\v\_.*/ contained contains=testKey
This works. It highlights all instances of a word if that word is ever matched in a curly brace. However, it also clears the highlighting of everything else in the file. How can I achieve the same result, but preserve the highlighting of everything else?