Taylor Venable wrote:
Hello all,
I'm trying to find a way to add keywords to the Todo highlight group,
such that they are only highlighted when inside a comment. Reading
through the help files, I thought this would work:
:syntax keyword Todo containedin=Comment contained WARNING NOTE
But unfortunately it doesn't seem to highlight anything at all.
Basically, I want WARNING and NOTE to be highlighted only inside
comments, like TODO and FIXME are by default.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
1) Did you enter this command at the keyboard, in your vimrc, or in some other
script?
2) The name of the "comment" syntax group is different for each language. For
instance, it may be vimComment, cComment, htmlComment, cssComment, etc.,
depending on what kind of file you're editing. (The corresponding _highlight_
groups are all linked to Comment by default, but that can be changed, and IIUC
it only applies after all _syntax_ groups have been determined, so I guess you
need to use the correct syntax group name).
3) Taking point 2 into account, I guess the right place for your command is in
an after-syntax-script; for instance for vimscript:
--- start ~/.vim/after/syntax/vim.vim
syn keyword Todo containedin=vimComment contained WARNING NOTE
--- end
For a more ambitious solution (untested)
autocmd Syntax * syn keyword Todo containedin=<amatch>Comment contained
\ WARNING NOTE
The above may have to be defined late in your vimrc.
Best regards,
Tony.
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