Re: Ignore special characters in highlighting?

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Ben Klein <ben@silver-chalice.com> wrote:
> In the case of including expressions in a string, I don't necessarily want
> to highlight the expression boundaries as part of the string. For example:
> Strings are green. If I have a string like this:
>
> "This is ${foo}."
>
> I can highlight `foo` in its own group, denoted by the ${ and }. But the ${}
> characters are green, along with the rest of the text of the string. Is
> there a way to avoid this?
>
> Ben
>

I know nothing about highlighting syntax, but maybe \zs and \ze will
help? (:help \ze, :help \zs)

Ethan Alan

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