Hugh thanks for your time, but that one did not help me ;) Christian, that was a great solution. It did do the trick. My c.vim is from 2006, I am not using the latest one(from nov 2010 by Bram) because the older one is more extended in a way and I already created my color file.
It was called CCommentError, so I diverted it to comment as you have suggested. Thanks again. that was great work around. it does not take care of the root of the problem but it is a great solution On Mar 2, 11:49 am, Christian Brabandt <cbli...@256bit.org> wrote: > Hi kuru! > > On Mi, 02 M r 2011, kuru wrote: > > > Currently when ever I open .c files, "//" comment lines show up as > > "errors" based on the color syntax. I have tried the latest c.vim from > > last November which seems to resolve the issue but that one is > > relatively shorter and not as extended as the previous c.vim syntax > > file. So I am trying to find the offending lines in the older c.vim > > and resolve the mishandling. The only thing is that I am not so > > profound with the expressions in the syntax files. And I just cannt > > figure out how to fix it. I am hoping that someone might be able to > > help me out here > > Where did you get this syntax file from? It doesn't happen here with the > latest Vim runtime file and also not with Vim 7.2. > > So you might need to investigate the syntax file. On the > //-comment line, enter the following line: > :echomsg synIDattr(synID(line("."), col("."), 1), "name") > It should output something like cComment > Now open the syntax file and search for that item. There should be a > line like this: > hi def link cComment <item> > > Now in your .vimrc put this: > " Fix annoying // Comments in C files: > hi link cComment Comment > > regards, > Christian -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php