Sunday, April 17, 2016

Re: question on VIM syntax: highlight an entire paragraph

On Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 3:48:52 PM UTC-7, Jose Caballero wrote:
> Is it possible to highlight an entire paragraph based on a single line content?
> I would be interested in changing the color of an entire block of
> configuration lines if one of those lines in the block is "enabled =
> False", for example.
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> I am so new to this (*) that I am not even sure what would be the key
> words to search for it on google.... So any tip or advice is more than
> welcome.
>
> What is a "paragraph"? Also what exactly you mean by "highlight",
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> Fair questions, I guess. I will try to be more clear.
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> I would like to have a VIM syntax file that changes the color or entire paragraphs (a set of lines between two blank lines) if one of the lines in the paragraph matches pattern 
> "enabled = False".
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> I hope now I explained myself better.
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> Jose

If you use search hilighting this might do what you want
/\n\(.*\n\)\{-}.*enabled = False.*\n\(.*\n\)\{-}\n

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