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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Why isn't vim applying syntax highlighting to this code?
If I open a random file (in this case, say .zshrc) in a blank vim with no rc file , but with vi compatibility forcing off
vim -N -u NORC ~/.zshrc
As expected vim will launch and display .zshrc ...
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Shortcut to remove orphaned parenthesis
While writing code it often happens that adding one parenthesis leaves another one orphaned somewhere. Many syntax color scheme color the parenthesis differently to signal it.
For example, while ...
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vim-latexsuite syntax highlight in macro parameter
I'm using vim with vim-latex to edit my LaTeX-files. I noticed that the \begin{env} and \end{env} are not colorized when they are in a macro parameter (the \vary command and question environment are ...
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Retrieve the syntax 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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Syntax highlighting: what is the difference between :syntax match and :match?
Simple question -- what is the difference between the two? When I try, for example, to highlight characters on every line after the 80th with highlight link OverLength Error (OverLength being an ...
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How do I make regexes mutually contain each other?
I've written regexes for markdown for emphasis and bold as follows:
syntax match PandocEmphasisMarker "\v(^|\s+)\zs_[^\n\t_ ]+([^_\n]|(\S_\S)|(\s_\S)|(\s+_\s+))+[^\n\t_ ]+_\ze($|\s+)" contains=...
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Syntax highlighting only matches strings if the character before the opening quotation mark is a letter
I'm writing a syntax file. To highlight strings, I'm defining a region just like it says in the help file:
syn region m2String start=/"/ skip=/\\"/ end=/"/
and later I have:
let b:current_syntax = "...
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Only highlight comments
Does anyone know a way to highlight only comments in vim?
Requirements:
For any colour scheme.
Without having to clear and re-add only the comment syntax group in each language's ftplugin.
I ...
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Syntax highlighting for “C like” files [duplicate]
I have a number of files with a syntax almost
identical to C, though the files have suffixes
such as .t, .sc
I would like to have the same syntax highlighting
that I have for standard C files ending ...
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Where do custom highlighting rules belong?
Occasionally I want to override the default syntax highlighting colours and styles with my own preferences.
I imagine the most appropriate way to do this would be to create my own colorscheme. ...
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Nested syntax folding
Assume I have a syntax as exemplified below and that I want to create a syntax folding definition for the nested begin..end pairs.
begin : label
a = 0;
begin
b = 1;
end
c = 2;
begin
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How can I highlight WinAPI functions in C++?
How can I add syntax highlight for windows.h C/C++ apis and types?
All I've found is a tiny winapi syntax file here.
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Extending Haskell syntax highlighting to allow for inline C snippets
There is a Haskell program called inline-C which allows C code snippets to placed inline Haskell code, as follows:
main :: IO ()
main = do
x <- [C.block| int {
// Read and sum 5 integers
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How can I change the highlighting of python class name?
How can I define a syntax to highlight the python class name MyClass in vim?
class MyClass(object):
......
Vim has already highlighted the class name. However, it seemingly highlights it with ...
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How to change vimscript syntax highlighting?
I like the syntax rules and don't need to change them, but what bugs me is that for some reason the author decided to highlight keywords with Structure group and function names with Comment (or ...
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How can I fix “missing” syntax highlighting for Python keywords such as “self”?
I'm trying to fix syntax highlighting for python; my colors are different from those in screenshots of what it "should" look like in different vim color schemes. And you can see the difference in ...
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Fix syntax highlighting in LaTeX
I'm using vim 8.0.94. In a TeX file (specifically LaTeX), the three occurrences of \(\) in
\(\)
{\(\)}
{\(\)}
should be highlighted in the same way, but they are not. Curiously, in the second, but ...
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Custom highlights not working in visual splits
I'm a tabs kind of guy, so I highlight leading and trailing white spaces with the following commands in my .vimrc:
highlight whiteSpace_trailing ctermbg=red guibg=red
highlight whiteSpace_leading ...
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Syntax highlighting with nested braces and forbidden keywords
I would like to write a syntax highlighter for a language like this one:
block1 {
keyword1 value;
keyword2 value;
sub_block1 {
keyword3 value;
}
}
block2 {
keyword1 value;
}
A ...
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Change spellcheck language via syntax
I have book length prose content in Markdown files that is mostly in Turkish. I've done a lot of work to get Turkish spell checking working decently in vim, so :set spelllang=tr spell works well ...
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Syntax highlighting randomly turns off
I use syntastic and split windows heavily in my vim workflow. Lately, syntax highlighting will vanish, seemingly at random, in one of my windows, usually after opening a new split. This happens with ...
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Mixing C-preprocessor and scripting language with highlighting?
We are using a proprietary tool which uses Tcl and the C preprocessor to create input files. Is there any way to get the Tcl syntax highlighting to also recognize the #if, #else, #endif macro ...
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VIM syntax file, how to match capturing groups?
Lets say I have a line like the following in a vim syntax file:
syntax match Emphasis "\v\s+_\zs[^_\n]+\ze_\s+"
In this line I'd like to create multiple capture groups:
the first underscore as "...
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Enable templating language (e.g., Liquid) syntax highlighting but keep native (html/css) commenting?
I just started working with Jekyll, which uses Liquid. As a templating language, Liquid is embedded into files of other types (e.g., HTML, CSS, or Markdown). Vim handles this sort of dual syntax ...
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Get all syntax elements with some group name from buffer
In my syntax file I have something like
syn match cleanReal "[+-~]\?\<\d\+\.\d+\(E[+-~]\?\d+\)\?" display
hi def link cleanReal Float
Is there a way to get all strings that are matched as ...
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Modify sh.vim to accept (@)_ as part of a variable name for Bash highlighting
I have Bash file in which I have constructs that include (@)_ as part of the variable name. For example:
(@)_VariableName
${(@)_VariableName[@]}
${#(@)_VariableName[@]}
${!(@)_VariableName[@]}
The ...
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vim syntax file: composite keywords
What if I define keywords as combination of two list of strings?
E.g.
List1:
['B', 'G96', 'TPSS', 'RevTPSS', 'BRx', PBE', 'PBEh', 'wPBEh']
List2:
['VWN', 'P86', 'PW91', 'TPSS']
and a keyword is ...
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Use .vim syntax file in language REPL
Lets say I have a REPL ./repl, which reads a line from the user, evaluates it, prints it and then repeats.
I have a .vim file that does syntax highlighting for this language in my .vim/syntax ...
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Syntax highlighting for custom LaTeX commands
I have a few custom LaTeX commands like this one, for instance:
\newcommand{\oeuvre}[1]{\textit{#1}}
I use this for titles of books and other works. Sometimes I want them to be italicized, sometimes ...
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batch create html colored versions of a list of files reflecting syntax highlighting
I would like to be able to easily create html-colored versions of a list of files (ex: "all the files in this directory", or "this list of files")
I know that I can do this manually, one by one, by:
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Adding conceal to already existing syntax highlighting?
I'm using Vim with the Vaxe plugin for syntax highlighting, the plugin's highlighting file is here for reference.
I'm trying to add some conceals to tidy up the code visually, but I can't seem to get ...
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Allow comment highlighting inside biblatex entries
The default syntax highlighting for bib files doesn't highlight comments inside entries, like this:
@book{test,
% title = {This isn't highlighted as a comment},
}
That's because bibtex doesn't ...
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Git submodules for syntax files
I keep my VIM folder under git version control. I use git submodules and Pathogen to keep my VIM plugins updated. The folder structure is .vim/bundle/$PLUGIN
Is it possible to use git submodules for ...
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Vim syntax highlighting of numeric literals with single-quote digit separators
C++14 provided us with the option of using single quotes to separate the digits of large numeric literals. This breaks Vim's syntax highlighting.
For example, consider the following C++14 program:
#...
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syntax highlighting for indentation sensitive multiline comment
I want to create syntax highlighting for indentation sensitive language that I'm designing, my question is how to highlight multiline comment that begins with #!
something like this
#! xxxxxxxxxxx
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How to do restrict keyword inside special lines?
I am trying to write a VIM highlight file for Gaussian 09 inputs. One example of "control" line is shown below:
# P TPSSTPSS 6-31G* DENSITYFIT
OPT(VERYTIGHT) INT(ULTRAFINE)
FREQ(NORAMAN)
TITLE ...
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Vim syntax highlighting for custom C types
I want to use syntax highlighting for custom C types. Based on my coding convention, types can occur in the following places:
typedef type1 type2;
(static | extern | register | volatile)? type ...;
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How to highlight windows end of line characters aka ^M, \r\n?
I would like to set a different highlighting for windows EOL characters.
I have tried several approaches and some of them worked when I did : so $MYVIMRC, which is pretty strange, because after I ...
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How to avoid repeating pattern strings in syntax files?
In my syntax description file I'm trying to define something like the following
syn match arbSAMPLEop "\<\(TEX\|TEX_SAT\|TXP\|TXP_SAT\|TXB\|TXB_SAT\)\>"
syn match arbTexTarget "\<\(1D\|...
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syntax: match all lines with a given pattern that follow a line with a different pattern
I'm writing a Syntax file for Robot Framework. I want to create a color scheme for the [Documentation] tag, such that the text following the tag, and all subsequent lines beginning with ... until the ...
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New lines are not continuing block comments, only in php
Say I type
/**
and hit return. In a .cpp file, or a .js file, the cursor would continue adding *s for me.
/**
*
But in a .php file, the cursor just moves to the next line. It's very annoying ...
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Customize syntax highlighting in netrw
Right now I am working on a latex project. When I open a netrw/vinegar window, I get following coloring:
Apparently, certain filetypes are grayed out and other are not. I like the idea to emphasize ...
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Order of matches in syn-cluster
For regular match groups, the last defined group will be the first to match.
When using match groups added to a cluster, I can't determine what the match order is. For example:
syn match allgroupcol3 ...
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How do I get Vim to correctly highlight Math mode in LaTeX command options?
I adopted the bracket notation, e.g., x[i], for the discrete signal x where i is the time index. The problem occurs in a pgfplots figure but I figured, the syntax highlighting behavior is due to being ...
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Changing background color of cursor during selection
Coming from Sublime, I find the following behaviour frustrating.
When I select some text, the first (or last depending upon which way you select) character flashes between the text color and your ...
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Is there a way to restrict search results to differences in a diff?
I want to be able to search only within the DiffText regions of a file that I'm editing.
Related question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2683521/vim-search-in-c-c-code-lines
The accepted ...
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How to change the color used to highlight function calls?
I would like to know if it was possible to change the color used to display function name.
Let's take the following example (using Python):
def function1(arg):
function2(arg)
# ...
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How can I fix the default bash syntax highlighter?
I'm having some issue with the default "Dr. Chip" sh.vim highlighter. Specifically, it's failing to recognise the comment character # after a touch command. e.g.
touch foo # it's here
It doesn't see ...
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How to check whether the cursor is at the boundary of a syntax item for indentexpr?
I'm writing my own indentexpr to indent my code, the indentexpr is run in a sandbox, so one important point is that I cannot change the text content.
I have set up the syntax highlighting for quoted ...
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Search within syntax group?
Is there a way to take advantage of syntax highlighting for searches? For example, can a search be limited to comments or non-comments, if they are correctly marked by syntax highlighting?
