Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Nested syntax highlighting in vim

Hi all,

I'm trying to create a syntax for my own mine.vim.
I always highlight [words between square brackets in one line] in red.
What if the mentioned square brackets are nested like ...
[words [inside another brackets]]?
I got red color only the first 3 [, [ and ].
But the color for the last one (]) is still white.
The relevant lines of mine.vim are as followings.
% grep mineRed ~/.vim/syntax/mine.vim
syn region mineRed start=+\[+ skip=+\\\\\|\\'+ end=+\]+ oneline
hi def link mineRed SpecialChar

Actually I don't know much about vim syntax highlighting.
I copied these commands from somewhere else (mostly help.vim).
And I then modified it to suit my needs.

Any input would be highly appreciated. Thanks,

--
Gua Chung Lim

"UNIX is basically a simple operating system,
but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity."
-- Dennis M. Ritchie

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