Questions tagged [syntax-highlighting]
Syntax highlighting is the use of colours, size, typeface, or other attributes to visually indicate it has a special meaning and therefore make it easier to understand the text. For example, marking language keywords with a specific colour.
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How to apply a specific syntax to a range within a file?
My cypher files are properly highlighted, however I have python files that include large texts of cypher like so
I would like the cypher part to be have the same cypher syntax highlighting like so
I ...
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Disable syntax expansion on cursor hover
I use Neovim with Vimwiki for a personal wiki of mine. I frequently use its syntax for changing typeface; for example _ _ for italic and * * for bold.
The syntax is expanded when the cursor is on a ...
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How to replace the default python syntax in Neovim without a plugin manager?
As the title, I would like to replace the default python syntax with the more modern one in https://github.com/vim-python/python-syntax.
I managed to do this in Neovim 0.9.4 with the vim-plug plugin ...
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syntax coloring does not work for flex file
I'm using nord theme, it works normally with other kind of files but not flex file
I have syntax on and filetype on
I tried switching colorthing from gruvbox to nord but it still behaving the same.
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How can I extend syntax highlighting with my own keywords?
I already have syntax highlighting for javascript, but what I'd like to do is extend it with some additional rules.
What I've been trying to start, is using highlight "Prototype" with a cyan ...
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Syntax match only within a particular region (but also within other nested ones)
Is it possible to get VIM to recognize syntax changes inside a particular region? Specifically, I am trying to get LaTeX3's \ExplSyntaxOn...\ExplSyntaxOff syntax to be highlighted, but only inside a ...
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How to disable lsp server syntax highlighting?
I found out that my lsp servers is somehow adding this ugly highlighting to my code (this happened after I updated my Homebrew for some reason), here are before and after pics:
Here is my lsp server ...
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Syntax match array of builtin types
I'm writing a syntax file for Solidity files.
Solidity has several built-in types, such as uint8, uint16, ..., uint256, bytes1, bytes2, ... bytes32, etc.
One can have arrays for pretty much all types ...
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How to distinguish between built-in and user-defined functions in Vim syntax highlighting for C?
I'm currently using the following code in my c.vim to highlight function names in C:
syn match cUserFunction "\<\h\w*\>\(\s\|\n\)*("me=e-1 contains=cParen,cCppParen
hi def link ...
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Set different colours for different HTML tags
Can we set different colours for different tags in HTML syntax? For example, set a tags to green and div tags to yellow. In VsCode this extension makes HTML tags coloured inside .html, .jsx, .tsx and ...
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Fixing JSON highlighting refresh
When I manually edit json files, I end up with red boxes falsely alerting me to syntax problems until I take manual action to refresh those lines.
I start with a file with a key/value pair:
{
&...
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Vim syntax highlighting: conceal does not work when opening files from netrw
I use Vim version 8.2.4919 without 3rd party plug-ins on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS running via WSL2.
I want to have italic syntax highlighting for words encapsulated in underscores in comments of my cpp ...
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Different Context Mode for highlight group
I can define different highlight groups for different documents.
For example,
in a general text document, I would define highlight groups as Header1,
Header2, Header3, and Normal Text, with different ...
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How to use different font size for different highlight group?
There is a similar question gVim - Use different fonts using :highlight but no answer yet.
In short, is it possible to apply different font size to different highlight group?
For example, while normal ...
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How to prevent the ansible format from getting overwritten?
I am using this plugin for ansible: ansible-vim, I am installing it with lazy like this:
return {
'pearofducks/ansible-vim',
build = 'UltiSnips/generate.sh',
lazy = false
}
When opening a file ...
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I've switched to nvim and init.lua, which pulls in onedark colorscheme. How can I add a custom rule?
I have C-style comments inside PHP strings that contain SQL code, so I can easily understand what the query is doing when I see it running on the server.
DB::runQuery('/* this is my SUPER complicated ...
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How to add a syntax rule to LaTeX filetype?
How can I colorize elements of the regex rule "\w\+:\w\+:\d\{4\}" in a LaTeX file ?
If I open a new document with no filetype and add the two following command :
syn match Bib3Dots '\w\+:\w\+...
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\zs not working in syntax file?
Udated 2023-09-11: Changed example to asterisk as it is simpler and the question now refers to \zs instead of \ze as \zs seems to be the issue.
I am trying to adapt the VIM Markdown syntax file so ...
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What options do I have to give time-only (i.e dependent on a call to a DB vai http) dependent coloring to the words matching a regex?
Say the special strings are those matching the regex \<prefix[0-9]\+\>, and say that an HTTP request I can do via system can tell me that that item is in one of three states, Green, Red, or Blue....
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MacOS - Vim overriding my highlight config in ~/.vimrc
~/.vimrc:
set backspace=2
set nocompatible
set clipboard^=unnamed,unnamedplus
syntax on
set expandtab tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2
set smartindent
set hlsearch
set incsearch
set ignorecase
set number
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Conceal highlighting not applying to Vim help files
The Conceal highlighting is not working properly when I edit a Vim help file. When I'm in insert mode on a line with concealed text, the concealed characters will be black on black. I can only see ...
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Syntax highlighting of a submatch
I have the following
syn match specialNumber /1/ contained
syn match normalNumber /\d/ contained
syn match line /^\d$/ contains=specialNumber,normalNumber
hi def link ...
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External syntax highlighting
Is there a way (even theoretical) for Vim to use an external program for syntax highlighting?
For instance a program that reads buffer content from stdin and prints single-character colour identifiers ...
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Cross-compiled Vim on ARM - only colours are bold, & underline
I cross-compiled Vim 9.0 for ARM / arm-linux-gnueabihf
(after also cross-compiling ncurses):
# ac_cv_sizeof_int=4 \
vim_cv_getcwd_broken=no \
vim_cv_memmove_handles_overlap=yes \
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Do not red underline unicode control points as misspelled words
Vim highlights Unicode control points as misspelled words. So correctly spelled words with Unicode strikethrough (overline, ...) always appear misspelled. Ideally this would be corrected as a setting ...
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Proper regex to prevent a match when keyword is preceded by a period
I'm writing a color syntax highlighting file for a derivative of Pick Basic. Two of the oddities that this language allows is periods in variable names and embedding a keyword in a variable name, ...
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Is there a way to apply syntax highlighting to the results of :g?
I do a lot of work with log files, and I use a lot of hi def foo and syn match foo in my .vimrc. Is there a way to apply that syntax formatting to the results of a :g command?
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Block comment syntax colouring being lost while moving, but redraw will fix
I frequently use block comments to disable sections of terraform code using /* to start disabling and */ to complete. As expected, the code will turn "grey" and lose syntax highlights.
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TSEnable highlight - true by default
I'm using the plugin 'nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter', and I can enable syntax highlighting by using the command:
:TSEnable highlight
However, once I close n/vim it reverts back to disabled. I'm ...
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Is there a way to disable Treesitter in Telescope?
I have max file size rule for files, setup in treesitter config, it works:
require 'nvim-treesitter.configs'.setup {
highlight = {
enable = true,
is_supported = function()
if vim.fn.strwidth(...
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Capturing a group in a pattern used in a Vim autocmd
I need Vim to ignore the .tmpl file extension to enable syntax highlighting.
How can I rewrite this:
autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.lua.tmpl set filetype=lua
to be more general? I want to match the lua ...
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Syntax highlighting breaks with rust analyzer
I have been using neovim for several months with basically no issue and
enjoying it very much. I have recently started receiving a problem with
the syntax highlighting in Rust.
When the file first ...
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How to disable semantic highlighting for certain filetypes only?
Using Neovim's native LSP interface, I noticed that semantic highlighting provided by LSP makes things worse for certain languages, so I want to disable it based on filetype.
I know about possibility ...
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NeoVim stopped working correctly: multiple distributions show same errors
I was writing some code. Everything was working fine, and at some point syntax
highlighting broke. When a file loads at first everything is ok. Then after about
10 seconds the highlighting changes.
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Disable treesitter highlighting for neovim 0.9
I do not use syntax highlighting, except for a few elements like errors, matched parentheses, search results, and diffs. Yesterday I updated NeoVim installation to v0.9.0 and now I see colors in for ...
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syntax highlighting for . and : in Lua function calls
Is there a syntax token name that can be used to configure syntax highlighting for the . and : characters in Lua function calls?
I tried the following with every possible value of TOKEN-NAME I'm aware ...
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How can I remove inverted background colors with Dracula colorscheme?
I'm using Dracula colorscheme without anything in .vimrc
byte/int/void has background highlight, how can I disable it ?
Update:
removing hi! link Type DraculaCyanItalic worked
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How to get list of highlight groups for a region under cursor? (problem with synIDtrans function)
My purpose is to get information which would explain why the region under cursor has that particular color. Yes, there are several very similar questions, but still my question is different.
I can get ...
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Use regex pattern as argument to function
I want to be able to pass a plain regular expression like so
autocmd BufReadPost * call TextEnableCodeSnip('bash', /^hello/, /^world/, 'SpecialComment')
To a function and use it within as a regular ...
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GNU Octave octave.vim syntax file auto indent not working
Before introducing the octave syntax file in ~/.config/nvim/syntax/octave.vim from here auto-indent worked as expected.
After introducing the file, the syntax coloring works, but the auto-indentation ...
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How to set the ALE configuration `g:ale_exclude_highlights`?
I use ALE to check coding style, but I want to ignore the warning type:line too long, like this picture:
And I find the related setting g:ale_exclude_highlights, this is its explanation in :help ale :...
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How can I make SyntaxRange#Include for another language balance the braces?
Currently I'm doing the following
call SyntaxRange#Include('\v\\(py|pyc|pyq|pycq)\s*\{', '}', 'python', 'Statement')
so that code such as \py{print(1)} highlights the part inside as Python code.
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Syntax highlighting for shell scripts broken
Since recently my syntax highlighting for ft=sh (also syn=sh is set) is broken:
Why is that? How can I fix it?
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I'm using Vim 9.0 with patches 1-1302.
I add here the code from the screenshot. ...
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Is there a way to prioritize native syntax highlighting groups over nvim-treesitter in Neovim?
So I've been trying to add some syntax highlighting for lua-language-server annotations in Neovim. The language server is set up using lspconfig so I don't get builtin support for those highlights the ...
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Prevent a syntax file from being sourced?
I want to use filetype=nasm to get syntax highlighting in assembly files (ending with a .asm extension). I have the following autocommand for it:
augroup FileTypes
au!
au BufNewFile,BufRead *....
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How to predefine functions in syntax file?
I have a syntax file for CSV files. To be able setting the separator, there is a function ChangeChar() and the syn match ... terms are variable.
To initialize it ; is used. But to call the SetMatches()...
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How to use variable in syntax match
I have made (better said got) a syntax file for CSV files. This works fine so far.
But there is the semicolon used as seperator. I want to be able to change the seperator e.g. by a function / mapping /...
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Exclude a single level of nesting region from another region
I am trying to define syntax highlighting (and more importantly, folding) for the following region (a Rust doc comment preceding e.g. a function):
1┌ /// <- region starts here, at the first triple-...
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nvim [syntax highlighting]
I'm using macOS with the kitty terminal emulator.
The problem I have is when working with .tex files:
The syntax highlighting of nvim is overlapping to colors so I have to mark those spots in order to ...
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How can I recursively use syntax inclusion for two languages?
In Vim, I want the syntax
\begin{pycode}
...
\end{pycode}
to syntax highlight the content inside the environment in Python, and the syntax
(#TeX
r"""
...
""")
to syntax ...
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