Re: Use different color for whitespace seperated list

On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 7:43:54 PM UTC-6, SungHyun Nam wrote:
> Hello,
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> I want to use different colors for whitespace seperated list.
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> For example, if there is a line like below:
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> ABC def3 g.1.3_b what.ever
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> DEF 1.2.3 abcdef __yeah__
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> Can I assign different color for 4 columns?
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Yes. Is this within another syntax or on an otherwise unhighlighted file?

The most trivial implementation would probably be to match start-of-line followed by non-whitespace followed by whitespace, and use nextgroup to do it again with a different name for each column after the first. See :help :syn-nextgroup.

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