Re: syntax highlighting with regular expressions

On Jul 5, 2014, at 5:24 PM, Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to use "syntax region" with start=regex and end=regex, but having difficulty.
> I want the region to match what follows the start regex and precedes the end regex.
> For example, say I want to match whatever follows "foo" or "bar" and precedes "baz" or "qux".
> So in these two examples, the word "test" should be highlighted:
>
> footestbaz
> bartestqux
>
> Can someone show me an example that is similar to this?

I just threw this together in terminal Vim. Hopefully it's some help. What I think may be key is that you need to set the `matchgroup`, which is the group the `start` and `end` patterns belong to.

**************************************************

syntax region testGroup matchgroup=endsGroup
\ start=/foo/ end=/baz/

highlight testGroup ctermfg=lightblue

finish

fooyo this is text baz

**************************************************

"yo this is text" is highlighted in blue when I source the script.

Ben

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