On 17/11/09 16:55, Jürgen Krämer wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Yogi wrote:
>>
>> I want to be able to highlight bold, italics, and underlined words in
>> a text file. My solution was to use
>>
>> hi QuickBold gui=bold
>> hi QuickItalic gui=italic
>> hi QuickUnderline gui=underline
>>
>> match QuickBold '\[\*\zs.\{-}\ze\*\]'
>> match QuickItalic '\[\/\zs.\{-}\ze\/\]'
>> match QuickUnderline '\[_\zs.\{-}\ze_\]'
>>
>> but it does not seem to work. Apparently, "match" can be used to match
>> [*only one*] group. So, in the above example, underlining works (since
>> it appears last), but bold and italics don't.
>>
>> Any ideas how I can do it? Do I need to write a syntax file for this?
>
> you can define up to 3 different matches by prefixing the match-command
> with numbers 1, 2, and 3, respectively:
>
> hi QuickBold gui=bold
> hi QuickItalic gui=italic
> hi QuickUnderline gui=underline
>
> 1match QuickBold /\*\zs.\{-}\ze\*/
> 2match QuickItalic /\/\zs.\{-}\ze\//
> 3match QuickUnderline /_\zs.\{-}\ze_/
However, beware that :3match is already used by the matchparen plugin,
so if you want to use it for another purpose you had better do
:NoMatchParen
first (if already started), or
:let loaded_matchparen = 1
(if in the vimrc).
>
> (I rewrote the patterns to use slashes because you version didn't work
> for me.)
>
> If you want more matches you can use the matchadd() function -- or you
> have to write a syntax file.
>
> Regards,
> Jürgen
>
Best regards,
Tony.
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