> On Sat, 26 Mar 2011, Roald wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> > I'm trying write a syntax file for (a subset of) YAML, mainly to
> > provide nice folding. It would not be so hard (I think) if I could use
> > back references in the skip and end patterns (referring back to the
> > start pattern), but that appears not to be allowed. Does anybody know
> > a way to do this?
>
> It sounds like you're looking for what's described at:
>
> :help /\z(
>
> Basically, insert a 'z' between the \( that normally opens a capture
> group, and between the corresponding back reference: \z1 instead of \1,
> \z2 instead of \2, etc.
Cool! Exactly what I needed, thanks.
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