On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, Dewdman42 wrote:
I'm trying to create a syntax definition. I need to catch the
following occurrences in a file
Groove <name> <comments with spaces>
Groove is the keyword, the <name> can be any single word with any
characters other than "/" and the comment is the rest of the text on
the line after that.
I would like to assign a color to "Groove" (easy) and a color to the
comments, and then either leave the <name> unhighlighted or also
assign a color to it.
I have tried all manner of contains, contained, nextgroup, etc..and I
can't seem to find a way to handle this situation, but I'm new to
this, so maybe I am missing something obvious.
Can anyone help?
This is the last thing I tried:
syn keyword MMAgroove groove nextgroup=MMAid skipwhite
syn match MMAid "[^\s/]+" transparent
contains=MMAgrooveComment
syn match MMAgrooveComment ".*$" contained
This works for the following example:
groove some-id the rest is the groove comment
syn region MMAgrooveComment matchgroup=MMAgroove start=/^groove\ze\s/ end=/$/
contains=MMAid
syn match MMAid "\%(^groove\s\+\)\@<=\zs[^[:space:]/]\+" contained
" some colors for testing
" helped point out that the whole file was matched as MMAid
hi def link MMAgroove Keyword
hi def link MMAid Identifier
hi def link MMAgrooveComment Comment
I tend in general to shy away from 'syn keyword', because it's not
usually what you want. (If 'groove' were a keyword, the second 'groove'
on the line would be highlighted.)
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Best,
Ben
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