Re: Problem with new line anchor in new syntax file

Hi Benjamin, Hi Ben,

When I go to the menu->syntax->show filetypes in menu at the bottom of vim window the calling statement appears as :cal SetSyn("c"). That it was how I worked out the 'enable syntax' statement. So, then I execute my statement as  :cal SetSyn("test.vim") and I have no error.

I thought the syntax is enabled (I had some highlighting effect). However, having read Ben's email in 'default highlight' thread I realised that the syntax is not enabled. I used Ben's syntax and everything is OK and works as expected! No default highlight and problem with the new line anchor disappear!

Cheers,

Kamil

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell <vim@benizi.com> wrote:

On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Kamil Libich wrote:

Hi,

I'm using Vim 7.2 under XP x32

I don't know why, the new line anchor seems not working in my syntax file which I'd like to prepare for myself.

I want to highlight the 'Test' word which is at the beginning of the line. To do that I use:

syn match tsTestName /^Test/
highlight link tsTestName Special

and it didn't highlight.

Any suggestions?

Maybe case-sensitive?  See :help :syn-case

Otherwise, an identical setup works here when specified manually with an open file.

Where are you putting those commands?  If you're expecting highlighting and you use syntax highlighting otherwise, you should put them in a filetype-specific file:

If you want it to be the only highlighting:
%HOME%\vimfiles\syntax\filetype.vim
== ~/vimfiles/syntax/filetype.vim

If you want it to be in addition to normal highlighting:
%HOME%\vimfiles\after\syntax\filetype.vim
== ~/vimfiles/after/syntax/filetype.vim

Using 'test' in place of 'filetype' in those names, putting your commands in there and calling :set ft=test  from another file worked.

If you want the highlighting regardless of filetype, you can use the 'matchadd()' function, and add the following to your vimrc or something like:
%HOME%\vimfiles\plugins\my-highlight.vim
== ~/vimfiles/plugins/my-highlight.vim

aug HighlightSetup
       au!
       au BufNewFile,BufReadPost,FileType,Syntax * call matchadd('Special','^Test')
aug END

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Best,
Ben H

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