Re: Syntax region not working as expected

Pedro Paulo Palazzo wrote:
> Hello, new to the group.
>
> I am trying to prevent the vim spell check from highlighting citekeys in Markdown texts (in the format [@Author:1999ab, p.\ 99]). for this, I set up a syntax line in .vimrc:
>
> <code>
> syntax region ExCitation start="\[@" skip="\\\]" end="\]" contains=@NoSpell
> </code>
>
> However, nothing comes out of it. Am I doing something wrong?
>
Not being a markdown user, coupled with your not having provided an
example, its difficult to give you a complete response.

That said, I suspect that your ExCitation needs to be "containedin" one
or more other syntax highlighting groups. Either study the
syntax/markdown.vim file and have your ExCitation line
containedin=..list-of-region-highlighting-groups..., or use my
hilinks.vim plugin (which you can get from
http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#HILINKS) and use it to
determine which highlighting groups it should be contained in. You may
also wish to consider using the "transparent" keyword.

Regards,
C Campbell

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