Re: Search via syntax group

Am 2015-02-13 07:05, schrieb Dominique Pellé:
> Justin M. Keyes <justinkz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How to search for the next instance of a syntax group?
>>
>> For example, say I have this .bashrc file:
>>
>> ls foo
>> rm foo
>>
>> "ls" is assigned the "bashStatement" syntax group.
>>
>> How do I jump to the next token with that group?
>>
>> Is there a way to get the regex expression from a syntax group?
>>
>> If not... seems like there should be. A syntax-highlighted buffer has
>> lots of information encoded in it. There should be a way to leverage
>> that with motions, /, :s, and :g.

Currently it only works for :s by using the hack
:s/foobar/\=synIDattr(synID(..),'name')=~?'Comment'?'FOOBAR':submatch(0)/

> Maybe the SyntaxMotion plugin is useful to you:
>
> http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2965
>
>> Is there a way to get the regex expression from a syntax group?
>
> No, but I've been wondering about this too. It could be useful
> to search by syntax group.

It's in the todo list buried. search for \%h and \%s

In fact, this was a reason, why I started hacking Vim source.
Unfortunately, it didn't work completly and messed up syntax
highlighting
badly.

Best,
Christian

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