Re: Different syntax behavior in vim 7.4

Yes, I could get the expected syntax display with vim 8.0 .

Thanks.

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Dominique Pellé <dominique.pelle@gmail.com> wrote:

Chandra <vchandrasri@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>     I see a syntax behavior change between vim 7.4 and earlier
> version. (We are yet to update VIM version to 8.0+ in our company.)
>
> I use different syntax for lines that begin with "//" (Comments) and
> lines that begin with "//:" (embedded Perl Code). I was able to
> achieve this with earlier version of vim by specifying this in the
> syntax file,
>
>          syn match embPerlCode "^\s*//:.*"
>
> and this in .gvimrc,
>
>          highlight embPerlCode gui=bold guifg=maroon
>
> This works fine in version 7.2 (didn't check in 7.3). But in version
> 7.4 the behavior has changed. The embPerlCode lines are
> shown with syntax color of Comments.
>
> Is there a way to get around this and get back the previous behavior?

Using vim-8.0.543 (gtk3 gui), it works as expected for me
i.e. I see different colors for comments if I do:

$ vim -f -g \
  -c 'syntax on' \
  -c 'setfiletype cpp' \
  -c 'syn match embPerlCode "^\s*//:.*"' \
  -c 'hi embPerlCode gui=bold guifg=maroon' \
  -c 'call setline(1, ["// a cpp comment", "//: an empPerlCode comment"])'

Can you double check?

If you use vim-7.2 or 7.3, you're missing a lot of
fixes and useful new features.

Dominique

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