Re: Quick way to highlight a report file

Thank you very much Christian ... this is exactly what I was looking for.
May I request you to explain the expression please.

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org> wrote:
> On Mon, September 6, 2010 9:04 am, C K Kashyap wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have a report file generated from a profiling tool.
>> It has multiple columns(tab separated) of numbers. I wanted a way to
>> highlight just the 4th column and alternate the background of each
>> row.
>> Is there a quick way to do it?
>
> I think this should work:
> call matchadd('WildMenu', '\_^.*\n\zs\%([^      ]*      \)\{3\}\zs[^    ]*      ')
>
> (Note, that this is one line and the whitespace is an actual Tab. If copy
> paste does not work, enter them as Ctrl-V (or Ctrl-Q if you are on Windows
> and Ctrl-V is "insert from the Clipboard") followed by the Tab key.
>
> I selected the WildMenu hilighting group. You can select any grou you like,
> use :hi to see what different groups are available.
>
> Depending on your definition of tab separated columns, the regular
> expression might become more complex. (e.g. Quoted tabs or escaped tabs
> should not count as delimiters). But this would be an excercise for later.
> I like it easy, so I ignored those possibilities ;)
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> regards,
> Christian
>
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