Sweet! Both solutions worked perfectly. Thank you Tim and Christian for enlightening me! /Johan
On Sep 23, 10:41 am, hirudo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm struggling with the pattern syntax for matching individual > characters in strings: > > My input looks like this > > First_string_1 Second_string_1 > First_string_2 Second_string_2 > ... > First_string_n Second_string_n > > All strings are potentially different, but contain no white spaces or > non-word/letter characters. > > I wish to highlight every occurrence of a certain letter, say 'S', in > the Second string, but not in the First! > That is, "For any line in my file that has two strings (separated by > white space), match and highlight all occurrences of letter X in the > second string". > > Up to now I'm using > hi MyS ctermfg=white ctermbg=red guifg=white guibg=red > syn match MyS "S\c" > > which of course matches and highlights any occurrence of 'S' (or 's'). > > Thanks for any help on this matter. > /Johan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
