On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 01:11:35PM -0400, Robert Hicks wrote:
> I am looking at updating the Tcl mode for Vim.
> 
> Tcl has a construct like:
> 
> if {0} {
>     # everything in here is ignored and so Tcl'ers
>     # will use it to comment out blocks of code.
> }
> 
> I would like everything between the brackets to be colorized like a comment.
> 
> Would it be something like:
> 
> syn region comment    start=+if {0} {+ end=+}+
> 
> Robert

     This is similar to the C construct

#if 0
  char *a = "This is actually a comment.";
#endif

You can see how this is handled in $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/c.vim :  search
for "cCppOut".  It is a little complicated, and I am no syntax guru, so
count me out from here.

HTH                                     --Benji Fisher

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