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There are several questions here on how to use different syntax highlighting within heredocs, but I want to just disable it. I can expand upon any answers I get here for other syntaxes within other filetypes.

I want to disable syntax highlighting in heredocs with these matches at the start:

cat << EOF
cat <<-EOF

I have come up with this, but obviously it doesn't work:

# after/syntax/sh.vim
syntax region hereDocText matchgroup=Statement start=+<<[-\s]*EOF end=+^EOF contains=NONE
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  • can you clarify what you mean by disable, and why? the region needs to be highlighted as something and it isn't sh script. what would it look like upon disabling?
    – Mass
    Nov 13, 2022 at 15:14
  • @Mass As in no syntax highlighting within the heredoc. I am usually using plain English within the heredocs and it's especially annoying when there is an apostrophe that screws up the syntax highlighting on the rest of the script.
    – paradroid
    Nov 13, 2022 at 15:26

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You have malformed syntax command, following one should work:

syntax region hereDocText matchgroup=Statement start=+<<[-[:space:]]*EOF+ end=+^EOF+ contains=NONE

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  • Thanks, but for some reason it's not working for me. I can see that the after/syntax/sh.vim has loaded in :script, but it's not making any difference.
    – paradroid
    Nov 13, 2022 at 16:39
  • I don't understand what matchgroup is for and I have not defined it anywhere else, if that makes a difference.
    – paradroid
    Nov 13, 2022 at 16:43
  • @paradroid asciinema.org/a/ZY1OGWo6Z6eWZjTViipcOcyx0
    – Maxim Kim
    Nov 13, 2022 at 17:31
  • @paradroid matchgroup is the name of the highlight group to apply to whatever was matched by start and end regexes.
    – Maxim Kim
    Nov 13, 2022 at 17:31
  • Thanks. I still cannot get it to work at the moment, but this is clearly a separate issue.
    – paradroid
    Nov 15, 2022 at 10:23

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