While editing my vimrc I noticed that some keywords get highlighted at the beginning of lines, like Note: and Reminder:. I tried to find this syntax group in the vim.vim syntax file, but to no avail. I also looked through all the :help files I could think of. Does anyone have a complete list of these handy keywords? Which syntax file are they located in?
This question references a similar type of keyword that might be in the same list, if these words are not limited to Vimscript:
If we look through :syn list we see some elements which are the same color as the highlighted words, in particular, vimCommentTitle. Using :syn list vimCommentTitle we see:
vimCommentTitle xxx match /"\s*\%([sS]:\|\h\w*#\)\=\u\w*\(\s\+\u\w*\)*:/hs=s+1
contained contains=vimCommentTitleLeader,vimTodo,@vimCommentGroup
links to PreProc
So the list of words is given by a regex, roughly:
and so on.
The purpose of this seems to be highlighting sections and function names in a vim script (although the pattern does not cover all possible function names). For example:
" Some Functions: {{{
" module#Function: this surely does something
fu! module#Function()
endf
" s:Func2: this does something privately
fu! s:Func2()
endf
" }}}
:echo synIDattr(synID(line('.'), col('.'), 1), 'name') is pretty useful to get the name of whatever is under the cursor (I have it as a command, since it's a bit hard to remember/type), then use :verbose hi <name> to find out where it was defined. Probably a bit easier than scanning through :syn list :-)
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Apr 11, 2020 at 17:06