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 syntax-highlight part of a file in a foreign language?
Using set syntax=lang we can override syntax highlighting of current buffer with lang.
Suppose we're editing a Bash script and some string variables are actually HTML code. How to force vim to use ...
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in-place replacement of code in HTML documents with TOhtml?
I'm working on some old HTML documentation, where are multiple code snippets (several lines long). I need to replace this old HTML-ized code with new one using modern styling.
What I have now:
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How do I view a regex and containedin of a group?
I'm wanting to see how groups were created and what they are contained in.
What I'm doing now is this and then I search for the group.
:Verbose syntax
What I would like to do is this.
:verbose syntax ...
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Using Vim as a syntax highlighting tool - Python and TeX interface
(Edited to explain the workflow, according to Christian Brabandt's first comment, and to focus on the Vim syntax core question in the first part as D. Ben Knoble asked)
I am trying to do something ...
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How do I make sure terminal vim has syntax highlighting with 'cursorline' and 'termguicolors'?
I searched this issue on the web to no avail and it's most likely not here too. The issue I'm facing goes like this
I am trying to switch to vim since I find it cool. I was writing my vimrc and ...
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How to get a better syntax highlighting on vim? [closed]
Hello Vimmers! I'm new to Vim.
How do I get bat's syntax highlighting (or anything similar) on Vim?
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How to define keywords starting by '*' following by words in syntax file
I want to enable syntax highlighting for Calculix simulation software. The input text file is made of keywords starting by '*', such as *HEADING or NO ANALYSIS. The keyword starts the line and there ...
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Vim syntax line matching mechanism
Can someone explain or link to valid explanation information on the syntax highlighting mechanism. In particular I am having having a hard time understanding how rules are applied.
Imagine the ...
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How to highlight a keyword juxtaposed to an alphabetic region start marker?
I have a syntax whereby #J indicates embedded JSON. This can be followed by any JSON object such as #J[1,2,3]. The atom cases (Boolean, null, number, string) are handled as a json_atom region. This ...
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How to use different rules for highlighting trailing whitespace inside a gitcommit diff
In my ~/.vimrc, I have:
highlight TrailingWhitespace ctermbg=blue
autocmd BufReadPost * syn match TrailingWhitespace /\s\+\%#\@<!$/
This highlights trailing spaces, except when I am still typing ...
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Please help debug syntax
I want to add syntax and highlighting to markdown filetypes. I have plugin 'vim-markdown-master'.
I read that if I want to add syntax and highlighting to syntax files I need to put it in after/syntax/...
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Vim to highlight functions and user-defined types
I have two scenarios where I want vim to highlight those items. Currently my fix for these are to add the return types directly into the after/syntax/c.vim file, but this gets incredibly tedious. Here ...
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Project local keyword highlighting
I want to enable syntax highlighting for custom types in C files. So, in order to highlight a type name MyCoolType, I add the following line to ~/.vim/after/syntax/c.vim:
syn keyword Type MyCoolType
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Syntax highlighting for uppercase headings using === or — syntax
In Vim, without using any markdown plugin, headings like
# Uppercase heading
# lowercase heading
lowercase heading
=================
lowercase heading
-----------------
get highlighted, while ...
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How dose colorscheme file working when python.vim file not exist?
I deleted python.vim in ~./Vim/vim82/syntax directory, and define colorscheme.vim in ~./Vim/vim82/colors directory.
The colorscheme.vim contain this code
call <sid>hi('pythonNumber', s:...
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manually set syntax highlighting works from command-line mode but not from .vimrc/init.vim
The gruvbox colorscheme and syntax highlighting for C++ doesn't highlight some elements such as:
string
vector
I have this:
So I decided to change the colors manually using in init.vim
syn keyword ...
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Cannot get rid of persisting highlighting
I switched from macos to linux and have spontaneous highlighting in my document. I tried to get rid of it by doing the following command without success:
hi clear
no syntax
nohlsearch
noh
The ...
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How can I change Javascript syntax to higlight objects?
I am trying to emulate the Atom JavaScript syntax highlighting in vim, but there are a few things missing.
Namely, I'd like to highlight objects and their chains in red. It'd be dandy if I could ...
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No syntax highlighting in tmux
I installed tmux in iTerm 2.(Build 3.0.13) When I execute vim in tmux, syntax highlighting looks like this.
But outside tmux, syntax highlighting looks fine.
My $TERM inside and outside tmux is ...
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Concealing the code for `braket` package for LaTeX with vimtex + `tex-conceal`
I am using vimtex with latexmk and using conceal setting provided by vim and extending it with an additional plug-in : KeitaNakamura/tex-conceal.vim. Additionally, I use a package braket to encode \...
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How to put sync region start=<this> into a variable?
I have the following code:
com! -nargs=* ShFoldFunctions <args> fold
ShFoldFunctions syn region shFunctionOne start="^\s*[A-Za-z_0-9:,][-a-zA-Z_0-9:]*\s*()\_s*{" end="}&...
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LaTeX dollar signs confuse syntax highlighting
I am editing LaTeX code such as:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs,tabularx}
\begin{document}
Blah blah Blah blah
\begin{table}\centering
\begin{tabular}{>{$}l<{$}p{4in}}
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Can Vim interpret terminal color escape codes?
Many CLI programs output nicely-highlighted text. While most of them check if the output is going to a file, some include the terminal escape codes. I like the output with the escape codes, but ...
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How to output highlighted source code into a file to use outside vim
At my workplace, I want to do a presentation of a custom language I've developed for solving some problems we had. For easier development, I created my own vim syntax file for this particular language....
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Enable syntax highlighting for files opened by quickfix commands like cc
After populating quickfix window using commands like :vimgrep, when I jump to a quickfix entry using cc <number>, if the file corresponding to that quickfix entry wasn't already opened in a ...
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Syntax Match PLSQL Label
A PLSQL Label uses this syntax <<LABEL_NAME>>
How can I highlight everything inside and including the opening and closing angle braces?
I've tried the following:
syn match PLS_label "...
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Syntax region doesn't stop at the correct end marker
I'm trying to set up folding for #pragma region in C/C++, and it kinda works, but I need to edit out #pragma from the cPreProc syntax region, which is definitely not ideal. If I don't edit it out, the ...
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Why my markdown syntax is not working?
I'd like to edit text with markdown syntax. Searching for ways of using mixed syntax in the same file I've discovered this question with an answer saying that if I add the line let g:...
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How do I prevent vim from hiding symbols in markdown and json?
This drives me crazy, I do
:set ft=text
To see something, otherwise all the links disappear in markdown and quotes in JSON.
How do disable this once and for all?
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folding in matlab
I'm using vim for my matlab editor. And It works nicely, except I cannot get folding to work.
I found my syntax file on github: matlab.vim
And I wanted to add folding.
I changed the line
syn ...
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Syntax highlighting not working in vim when containerized in docker
I am running an instance of Vim in a docker container, with configuration mostly taken from here (up untill " Build debug and release targets...)
As you can see on the pic, clangd-completer works ...
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Fold: Different highlight style for fold of each filetype
Extend of this question of fold: Fold: foldtext() for each filetype
We have fold for each filetype now but each fold need different highlight style of color, because highlight is global I tried to ...
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Interactive syntax-highligting: highlight the current region only
Often enough a text file is structured as a collection of blocks or cells of some kind. E.g., slides in a Tex Beamer presentation, bibtex items, function definitions, etc.
I wonder if vim can ...
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Highlight region between curly brackets but only when it occurs after a keyword in the same line
So I have a language that looks something like this:
proc someprocess : (arg1: type1), (arg2: type2) ... |- (channel: type) =
{
send $ch msg ;
pay $ch {n} ;
}
I want the {n} to be highlighted ...
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Disable spell checking for URLs in BibTeX
I would like to disable spell checking for the URLs in my BibTeX (.bib) files. I was able to disable spell checking for the citation keys (author-year or author+year) as follows:
autocmd FileType bib
\...
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Vim shortcut for :tabprevious change opened file on start
I try to configure my .vimrc file adding new shortcuts for my daily routing.
One of my basic operations in every single IDE is switching between "tabs". I suppose to put the same key binding ...
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How to get syntax group name of a floating window
I would like to change the font from bold to normal in my floating windows in Vim 8.*
I have this script here that gets the syntax group name of the item under cursor. However, this will not work for ...
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Vim thinks Python @ operator is decorator
Python3 has the matrix multiplication operator (@) which is used to multiply numpy matrices. But when we write something like A = B @ C in vim, the @ C portion gets highlighted. Apparently Python has ...
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Highlighting item in fold for custom markup language
I am trying to write custom syntax highlighting for a domain specific markup language for a simulator I am working on. I can get everything but one part working. A simple example would look something ...
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ruby syntax highlighting lost on long files
With a "long" ruby file (896 lines in my case) the ruby syntax highlighting is lost when I G to the bottom of the file. Once that happens and I go back to the top with gg, the syntax highlighting ...
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I use the glsl syntax highlighting file, it works the first time I load a shader, after that, no highlight, why?
I've a project where I work on OpenGL Shaders.
I downloaded the glsl syntax file and installed it on my computer (a personal folder) and then added the following auto-load line to my .vimrc:
au ...
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How to disable JSON error highlighting on the current line?
Problem
I find the error highlighting really distracting, its not that I don't want it because it is really useful for spotting errors in JSON syntax, but, I really dislike that it highlights new ...
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Syntax highlighting for StackExchange markdown
I often "pre-compose" and save my longer questions for StackExchange usign Vim / GVim.
Does a syntax highlighting file for the StackExchange markdown already exist? If yes, where can I obtain it?
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How does `\zs` interact with syntax matches?
Consider the text:
foobarbaz
First we highlight the regular expression /foobar/:
:syntax match Special /foobar/
Next we highlight the regular expression /foobarbaz/:
:syntax match Error /foobarbaz/
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How to fix this `Omni completion (^O^N^P) Pattern not found` error?
I am trying to set up syntax keyword based omnicompletion in vim.
I have defined a few syntax keyword Constants in ~/.config/nvim/syntax/spl.vim
They are correctly detected and highlighted.
They are ...
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What is the term of feature used by on-the-fly checkers?
Here are two screenshots, with vim and neovim, both with configured language server protocol and showing same file:
Neovim:
Vim:
I want to configure neovim to have same style as vim -- I do not like ...
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Make vertical line colorcolumn thinner?
I set a vertical line with setlocal colorcolumn, is there a way to make it thinner? Or a workaround? I already have a function to color long lines but I prefer to have a thin vertical line. I changed ...
