On 2007-04-12, Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gary Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:05 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: hilight blocks
> >
> > On 2007-04-12, Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Is there any simple way to have custom blocks of code highlighted and
> > the
> > > remaining code outside the blocks not highlighted?
> > > For example:
> > >
> > > # file.txt
> > > some plain text
> > > [my-custom-tag] some custom text [/my-custom-tag]
> > > Some more plain text
> > > ...
> > > # end of file
> > >
> > > So the idea would be to open VIM using file.txt and the code inside the
> > > custom tags would be highlighted.
> >
> > How about this?
> >
> > match Todo '\[my-custom-tag]\zs\_.\{-}\ze\[/my-custom-tag]'
> >
> > where you can certainly choose some highlight group other than Todo.
> >
> > You can put that line just as it is into your .vimrc, or put it in
> > an after/ftplugin/txt.vim file, or create an autocommand to invoke
> > it on just the files you want.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Gary
> I like this one, I put it in my local ~/.vimrc file and it works
> for VIM (v6.1.3). But when I load this on another machine running
> VIM (v6.3) I get this error:
>
> bash-2.05$ vi file
> Error detected while processing /export/home/me/file:
> line 6:
> E28: No such highlight group name: Comment '\[perl]\zs\_.\{-}\ze\[/perl]'
> Hit ENTER or type command to continue
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Contents of .vimrc:
>
> :set number
> :set hlsearch
> :set incsearch
> :set ignorecase
> :set shiftwidth=3
> match Comment '\[perl]\zs\_.\{-}\ze\[/perl]'
I don't know. ":help hicolors" and ":help group-name" in vim 7.0
both include the Comment group. The Comment group is used in so
many examples in the vim help files and comments are such common
aspects of programming languages that I would think that that group
has existed since vim first had highlight groups.
I see that if I start vim as 'vim -u NONE' and execute
:verbose hi Comment
I get the error message
E411: highlight group not found: Comment
but if I then execute
:syn manual
:verbose hi Comment
I get the response
Comment xxx term=bold ctermfg=4 guifg=Blue
Last set from
~/src/Linux/vim-7.0/share/vim/vim70/syntax/syncolor.vim
So from that I conclude that you have to execute a :syn command of
some sort in some initialization file before before referring to any
of the highlight groups in your .vimrc. I'll bet the machine
running vim 6.1.3 has an initialization file that includes ":syn on"
and the machine running vim 6.3 does not.
This is probably discussed in the vim manual someplace, but I didn't
go looking for it.
HTH,
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
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