Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Can matchadd() highlight matches that start off-screen?

I used a matchadd() pattern to highlight functions that violate my team's coding standards by being too many lines.

It works...but only if the first line of the function is currently visible in the window. As soon as I scroll the start of the match off-screen, the match disappears.

Is there a way to force matches defined with matchadd() to consider lines that are not currently visible on-screen? It makes sense for efficiency to not consider these for single-line patterns, but patterns that match multiple lines are broken by this optimization. So I'm hoping there's an option or a flag or something that I'm missing.

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