> Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > I hear a lot about the txtfmt plugin, which seems to be very advanced.
> > But I don't know, whether it can help in your scenario, when you want
> > to color whole lines. Brett, probably knows better.
>
> The Txtfmt plugin can be used to change the background color (as well as
> foreground color and format attributes) of arbitrary regions of text. As
> Christian correctly points out, however, the syntax mechanism operates
> only on actual *characters*. As far as I know, the only way to do what
> you're trying to do involves the addition of trailing whitespace (whose
> background color can be set). Of course, you may not wish to have such
> whitespace in your source files...
>
Brett, Christian --
Thanks for the info. I had checked out txtfmt and, as you say, it
doesn't quite do what I wanted. Adding whitespace isn't a good
solution for me either, so I'll just live with Vim's limitation.
Regards,
Herb
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