Re: which match-highlighting is in effect (if any) at a point in a file?

On 28 March 2015, Charles E Campbell <drchip@campbellfamily.biz> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> In using :match, :2match, :3match, or matchadd(), one may specify
> special highlighting. Any easy way for a vimscript to know which,
> if any, highlighting match is active? Such highlighting overrides
> the usual syntax highlighting, and I'd like to know what's going on
> at the current cursor position.

getmatches() returns the list of patterns set by matchadd() and
friends, but as far as I know there is no easy way to tell whether a
given pattern affects a given line or not.

/lcd

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