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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Set cursor colour different when on a highlighted word
With the current colourscheme I have been using, it is hard to find where the cursor is positioned when navigating through search results. The highlighting colour and the cursor colour are blending in ...
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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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How to make a syntax region stop on empty lines?
I would like to adapt this syntax file so that the formatting in VIM matches more closely what this online Markdown editor (GitLab-flavor) displays (the output on the right is relevant, this is how I ...
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Different syntax highlighting in the same file for different languages
Is there a way to use more than one syntax highlighting schemes in one file?
Specifically, I'm interested in having part of a LaTeX code highlighted according to my python syntax highlighting rules:...
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Vim syntax pattern to highlight python keyword argument
I'm struggling with learning vim regexps (I don't know any other regexp very well either), so the main problem is to define regexp that would match
some_function_call(simple_value, keyword=value)
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How to set LaTeX syntax to “ConTeXt” in vimrc
TL;DR: How do I permanently and persistently :set syntax=context for *.tex files?
I've been using vim for a LaTeX project, with monokai-tasty as the colour scheme.
The default syntax highlighting ...
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How to make vim syntax files look nice? [duplicate]
I often get really long lines, such as:
syntax region SomeName start=/some_pattern/ end=/some other pattern/ contained contains=SomeOtherName,YetAnotherName,EvenMoreNames,More,MoreAgain,KeepsGoing,...
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Vim syntax match changes based on function type name keyword
I've written a C code syntax rule to highlight function names in function definitions as such:
This is the syntax rule written in ~/.vim/syntax/c.vim:
syntax match cCustomFunc /\w\+\s\+\zs\w\+(/he=e-...
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Mapping between Vim syntax highlighting and Emacs font-lock [duplicate]
I try to harmonize the colors of my Vim and Emacs. But I am not sure how to map some Emacs faces to Vim. Emacs distinguishes between keyword and builtin. In shell mode if and case are of the type ...
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Syntax highlighting region messed up by matching parentheses
For a new filetype, I was trying to make block comments in the syntax highlighting but they kept disappearing while I was moving around. I have managed to reduce it to the following. First, in the ...
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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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Linking a filetype to a syntax file of a different name
I’ve created a new filetype, “usenet,” for Usenet messages. I would like files with this filetype to be highlighted exactly as if they had the “mail” filetype. Is it possible to tell Vim that I want ...
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How to stylize text between backticks ( ` ) to match text style between single/double quotes ( ' | " )?
In my vim, I'm using gruvbox. Syntax colorization is great for everything except text written between `backticks`. You'll note once backticks are used, all subsequent lines of text are green. I would ...
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How to prevent vim from highlighting random words and types
I've been trying to disable vim from highlighting random words and types for a few hours now. I've noticed vim will highlight specific types when I write python and golang programmes. Even my .vimrc ...
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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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head isn't included in syntax/sh.vim
head is a common Unix/Linux executable, but it's not listed in the shell syntax highlighting configuration.
In contrast, many common executables are. Specifically, its counterpart, tail, is listed. ...
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Can I use syntax highlighting on an unwritten buffer?
I pasted some code into a new, unwritten buffer in Vim. I'd like to do some quick edits on the code without saving it to a file, but it hurts my eyes to look at code without syntax highlighting. Can ...
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`.vimrc` unsuccessful in setting highlight style
1) To underline misspelled words, I can execute the following in an open buffer:
:hi clear SpellBad
:hi SpellBad cterm=underline
:set spell
2) However, if I write in my .vimrc the first two lines, ...
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How to disable margin (+/!)?
Currently I installed vim addons for python.
http://fisadev.github.io/fisa-vim-config/
However, I don't like the +/-/! on the margin. Does anyone know how to disable all of them?
Thanks,
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Fade Rows Far From Center
I am currently using a vertical monitor for my vim setup. I absolutely love being able to view 100+ lines of code at once. My eyes can scan longer and more complicated blocks of code.
However, I have ...
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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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Python semantic linting [closed]
I'm currently using ALE (recently upgraded to this from syntastic) and YCM for code completion, highlighting syntax errors on-the-fly (rather than just at save time, like with syntastic), and it's ...
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CMake syntax highlighting not working as expected
For most files, Vim (terminal) is syntax highlighting properly without any issues. However, I am unable to get it to work for CMakeLists.txt:
Neovim has no trouble with syntax highlighting, neither ...
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Remove costum commands from vim-spell
I recently tryed following the answer to this question:
vim-spell: exclude custom LaTeX commands.
To remove spelling from the inside of certain commands, I ended up adding the following to after/...
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How to edit the highlighting of the function names in c++ syntax
I want to change the highlighting of the function names inside a c++ file, here is an example
As you can see in the previous picture functions names have their own color, parser(), parse(), ...
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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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vim python syntax not working (Partly)
Vim only seems to highlight comments, numbers, and imported modules. So function calls, attributes, etc are all non-highlighted. I have 'syntax on' and 'filetype plugin indent on' in my vimrc. syntax ...
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How can I make highlighting commands in .vimrc take effect immediately with Vim 7.4?
I have several highlight commands in my .vimrc file. In Vim 7.3, these took effect immediately after Vim had started. After updating to Vim 7.4, this is not the case anymore. Vim uses its default ...
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Use combining characters in concealment character
Are combining characters allowed in a concealment character? The following does not seem to work:
syntax match underdot "a\." conceal cchar=ạ
The underdot is U+0323. This syntax conceals a. simply ...
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How would one change the spell-checking style while preserving highlight color?
Currently when working with vim's spellcheck a word is highlighted a certain color based on the type of error it is. Instead of highlighting the erroneous word I'd like it to be underlined with the ...
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How to use vim as an error checker?
I'm transitioning to vim and I love the feature other IDEs provided in which when I wrote something with a syntax error it accuses me through a red underlining.
I don't know what this type of feature ...
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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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markdown html-element syntax highlighting fails when line has leading spaces
For some reason, my html elements stop being highlighted when they are preceded by 4 or more spaces. I use spaces to do indentation for nested elements, so this is quite unfortunate. This only ...
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SpecialKey foreground color w/ cursorline set
In this Q&A, it's observed that there is a highlight group for CursorLineNr, which applies to the line number for the cursor line when set cursorline is on.
I notice that using cursorline also ...
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Change background color of git conflict marker sections
If git is performing a 3-way merge and has a conflict it can't resolve, it marks up that area of the file like this:
No unresolvable conflicts here
<<<<<<< HEAD
xyz
||||||| ...
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Installing a Vim package. syntax highlighting does not turn on
I want to use the nuweb.vim extension for syntax highlighting nuweb files.
Long story short, nuweb files are basically a super-set of latex files. There is added syntax and markers to embed code-...
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Syntax folder under plugin/foo/syntax/foo.vim not automatically applied when filetype change?
I have a plugin under nvim/plugin/foo, but the syntax file nvim/plugin/foo/syntax/foo.vim is not automatically applied when the filetype change, but if I put it under nvim/syntax/foo.vim it works
I'...
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Syntax highlighting for markdown can't be set manually
If the file is named *.markdown then the highlighting works correctly. If it is named *.md then it doesn't work.
Even if I type :set syntax=markdown, the highlighting doesn't turn on.
With other ...
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How to highlight unused Python imports in VIM
I want to highlight unused Python imports as Python syntax errors.
For example, I sometimes forget to remove some packages used for debugging such as time, ipdb. It would be great to see warnings or ...
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Command to list all customizable color highlights
A few days ago I found a command that allowed me to view all the syntax colors in a theme. I could then determine what highlight I needed to change in order to customize the theme. Can you help me ...
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How to selectively turn specific highlight group on and off from vim session?
I have in my .vimrc:
hi SpellBad ctermfg=7 ctermbg=0* cterm=underline
hi Nonascii ctermbg=Black ctermfg=Red cterm=none
hi [...]
Some config files I need to look at contains so many unknown words ...
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Highlighting another syntax in a shell heredoc
I edited my original question and title to broaden its scope to any syntax - with SQL used as just an example. You can adapt the examples and the answer to other languages.
By adding suitable ...
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highlight link with condition file does not exist
For a wiki syntax plugin, i'd like to have two highlighting colors for links. Links already having a destination file should be green and links with no destination yet should be red.
[[This file ...
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Enable syntax highlight between custom tags [duplicate]
When I work with ruby .erb files, vim correctly detect javascript blocks and highlights them accordingly:
... colored html ...
<script>
... colored javascript ...
</script>
... more ...
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Invalid syntax for a bash file called catalog
I have a file written in bash (with the she-bang) and called "catalog", and the syntax highlighting is incorrect. If I rename the file, the colors become correct.
I have not configured anything in ...
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Is there a conflict between `syntax enable` and custom keywords?
I have the following minimal .vimrc file:
" syntax enable
syntax case match
syntax keyword MyTodo TODO PENDING
syntax keyword MyTodoIP IN PROGRESS
syntax keyword MyTodoClosed CLOSED COMPLETE DONE
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Add keywords to a highlight group
Todo highlight group currently highlights TODO and FIXME keywords. What do I do to add NOTE, and possibley more keywords, to this existing highlight group, for all file types?
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Enabling Syntax in Vim Creates Lag
I was trying to learn javascript the other day and was using emacs as I have been trying to learn emacs as well. But after sometimes my left wrist started to hurt(as one's does) so I switched to ...
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Syntax Highlighting a region inside the start match of another region
I have two syntax region defined as follows:
syntax region xBCD start="b" end="d"
hi def link xBCD Todo
syntax region xBlock start="\z(abcde\)\zs::" end=";"
hi def link xBlock Comment
and a text ...
