On Tuesday, December 24, 2013 1:31:30 PM UTC-6, riemann wrote:
> I would like to have automatic user defined types syntax highlighting in Vim.
> So that if I have for example a syntax match group for classes
> and have this in the buffer
>
> 1 class mytype {
> 2 //...
> 3 };
> 4
> 5 mytype a;
> 6 mytype b;
>
> "mytype" is automatically highlighted on lines 5 and 6 besides 1.
>
> I would like to modify the source code rather than use scripts, for
> responsiveness of highlight and efficiency reason.
> I am reading src/syntax.c and I'm trying to answer these questions:
>
> 1) Which data structure holds the syntax information of a certain group?
>
> 2) Which function triggers on a match event to update this structure?
>
> 2) Can I extract from the structure the strings to be highlighted?
>
> Any help appreciated,
> Thanks
Vim doesn't even defined syntax highlighting in source code! You're going at
this all wrong. Vim always does syntax highlighting via script. There are
exactly zero languages Vim highlights without a script.
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