On 2008-12-28, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > I am a Gentoo user. Basically, I want to enable the filetype plugin > and use the default syntax highlighting distributed with Gentoo. But I > want to apply my custom syntax highlighting also. I did the following, > but did not get what I expected: > > vim /etc/fstab > syn match mTab /\t/ > hi link mTab Visual > > The expected result is that all tab char. will be displayed in a > reverse color, so I can find them easily. If the file I am working > with does not have 'filetype' set, my commands works; if vim has set > the 'filetype', and it detected the file type, my commands won't work > at all. > > any idea about how to fix this? thx
I think you can fix this by putting this command in your ~/.vimrc after your "filetype plugin on" command: au Syntax * syn match Visual /\t/ I replaced mTab with Visual for convenience and it worked for the few test cases I tried. Regards, Gary --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
