background: I want to highlight columns in a table differently (database output) So 1 and 2 will be substituted by either \t or |.
============= syntax file ====================================================== hi def link Color1 Macro hi def link Color2 Error "Show colors of Color1, Color2 syn keyword Color1 A syn keyword Color2 B syn match Color1 '^1\zs[^1]*\ze' syn match Color2 '^1[^1]*1\zs[^1]*\ze' syn match Color2 '^2[^2]*2\zs[^2]*\ze' ============= testfile ========================================================= A B 1aa1bb 2cc2dd explanation lines testfile: Line 1 testline to show Color1 Line 2 testfile to show Color2 Line 3 Here aa and bb should be highlighted with Color1, Color2 ( bb isn't) Line 4 only dd should be highlighted to show that the match pattern works (only difference is 2 instead of 1) Marc
