Thursday, May 27, 2010

Re: Syntax Highlighting Minor Groups

Hi,

airforceone schrieb:
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to highlight specific portions of the syntax.
> Take a look at this (taken from the vim documentation):
>
> *Statement any statement
> Conditional if, then, else, endif, switch, etc.
> Repeat for, do, while, etc.
> Label case, default, etc.
> Operator "sizeof", "+", "*", etc.
> Keyword any other keyword
> Exception try, catch, throw
>
> We can do syntax highlighting for the Statement syntax by doing the
> following in vimrc:
>
> hi Statement gui=none guifg=Red
>
> That command will apply highlighting to all the minor groups as well
> (conditional, repeat, etc.)
>
> Is it possible to apply highlighting to a specific group (conditional,
> repeat, label, etc), rather than the major group (statement)?
>
> I tried doing pattern matching but that takes way too much work...

have you tried

hi Conditional guifg=Red

?

This worked for me.

Regards,
Jürgen

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