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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Vim black text on black background in command line in Windows 10 while editing git commit message
I am using git 2.7.0.windows.1 in Windows 10, with core.editor set to vim.
Vim was downloaded from vim.org latest version binary:
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4.1023 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Jan 2 2016 14:24:...
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Create syntax filetype
I'm trying to create a syntax file for a new language/filetype. I followed this tutorial.
Here is my (not complete) syntax file, created in directory ~/.vim/syntax/scad.vim:
if exists("b:...
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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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List/navigate specific syntax elements in a file?
I would like to jump through specific syntax elements in a file. For example, quickly navigate to the next string element. In a .vim file strings are defined as vimString syntax elements. For ...
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E254: Cannot allocate color SlateBlue
I just freshly installed vim via brew install vim... and presently have version 8.2.3450.
In ~/.vimrc I have syntax on, and when I run vim, I get:
E254: Cannot allocate color SlateBlue
If I delete / ...
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How to change the color of the prefix "b", "r", "f" or "u" before strings?
Is there any way to do this ? I'm using vim 8.2 with this python plugin.
The inside of f strings for example is correctly highlighted but not the "f"
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Using a vim syntax file, I would like some Keywords, such as ??, to be colored
I have been trying to get through the syntax file documentation on vim help,
https://vimhelp.org/syntax.txt.html#%3Asyn-files
but it's quite the read and I figured someone here may know how to go ...
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Syntax highlighting is incomplete on neovim, fixed by calling Telescope
I have this problem that I would really like to get to the bottom of.
If I open a file on neovim it will display like the broken syntax highlighting, see image below.
Now, If I run :Telescope ...
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Retrieve the match id under the cursor, in all cases
How can I retrieve the syntax id under the cursor, in all cases?
Indeed, the synID() function doesn't take into account highlightings due to the :match* commands or the matchadd() function.
Example, ...
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Toggle specific highlight group
Is it possible to temporarily disable the text highlight under cursor?
The current highlight group can be obtained by synIDattr(synIDtrans(synID(line('.'), col('.'), 1)), 'name'). How to clear it to ...
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What's missing to fold vimscript consecutive comments with "syntax" foldmethod inside function, if, while, etc?
This syntax region fold consecutive comments:
syn region vimFoldComment
\ start="^\z(\s*\"\)"
\ end="\(\z1\)\@!"
\ transparent fold
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Markdown lists items three levels or deeper are not syntax highlighted
In a Vim markdown file (:set filetype=markdown),
special items such as links and itacized text
are normally syntax highlighted,
but when they appear in a list more than three levels deep,
they appear ...
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Modify syntax highlighting dynamically
Is it possible to write a vim plugin that modifies buffer in real time? As a first step, would it for example be possible to modify syntax highlighting of unused variables as suggested in a similar ...
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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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Custom syntax highlighting: highlight match following keyword
This question might be related to Custom syntax highlighting: highlight word following keyword but after studying that for hours, I could not get it to work.
What I want is to highlight vulkan types ...
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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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Why does an empty vimrc file change my configuration (e.g. disable syntax highlighting)?
Here is the sshconfig syntax highlighting when i do not have any .vimrc file:
Let's create an empty .virmc :
$touch ~/.vimrc
Now let's edit that same file again:
Why is this happening? I'd like to ...
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Changing syntax highlight rules priority
I want Vim to highlight tags (#tag) in my Markdown files.
I extended the default highlighting by creating ~/.vim/after/syntax/markdown.vim with the following content:
syn match mdTag '#\w\+'
hi link ...
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How do I use syntax-nextgroup in this custom syntax file?
Writing vim syntax files never ceases to make me feel like an idiot.
I have a new custom language call jsond, and I wanted to get syntax highlighting working in vim. Using racket syntax works pretty ...
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Highlighting won't change when using hi def link
I'm trying to create a basic custom syntax file for the first time, but I noticed that after I set a highlight link it's basically set and I'm not really sure how to change it.
Here is my syntax file:
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Why does my syntax highlighting disappear after so many splits?
I can successfully run :sp *filename* several times per vim session, but after a seemingly-random number of splits (5-10) all future splits will no longer have syntax highlighting until I fully quit ...
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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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How to match paragraphs of text ending with a character?
This problem that seems trivial is beating me real hard.
I'm trying to create a couple of syntax highlighting directives for a custom language that is structured in paragraphs separated by at least ...
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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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Using Vim as a syntax highlighting tool - Python and TeX interface
I am trying to modify Vim's syntax highlighting rules for Python to suit specific needs : in particular, I need to capture all the line after some regexps (^Out [.*]: and ^\h\w*Error:).
After some ...
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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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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 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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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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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 "...