> I've tried to fix it as if it was 2) or 3) but it hasn't
> worked
>
> I'm writing a piece of fortran90 code (.f90 extension) If
> that helps I just started a fresh file and it highlights
> the first character on each line with red (change
> character to white) and makes all the white space before
> it red aswell. It also highlights the 6th "space" of every
> line orange.
>
> What's happening?
> I don't remember it doing this before
Thumbing through the $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/fortran.vim syntax
definition, it looks like there are some bits in there for
performing column-oriented coloring.
I suspect it's the
syn match fortranLabelError "^.\{-,4}[^0-9 ]"
contains=fortranTab
that's causing the trouble. Fortunately, it looks like you
can add a line to your vimrc something like
let fortran_have_tabs=1
which may solve matters.
You can read more than any sane person should want at
:help fortran
particularly the section about "Tabs in fortran files".
Hope this helps,
-tim
(successfully avoiding Fortran and Cobol for over 10 years!)
