On Thursday, April 5, 2012 1:39:43 PM UTC-5, Ben Fritz wrote: > On Thursday, April 5, 2012 12:20:01 PM UTC-5, Zetah Ghamin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I find it convenience to highlight the tab and trailing spaces. So I wrote > > these line in my .vimrc: > > > > hi Tab guibg=Blue ctermbg=Blue > > hi TrailSpace guibg=Red ctermbg=Red > > match Tab /\t\+/ > > match TrailSpace / \+$/ > > > > But only Tabs turn blue, and space looks the same. If I switch the last two > > lines, then only tailing spaces turn red. > > > > How come? > > > > The :match command only allows a single matched pattern at a time. Use > :2match or even better the matchadd() function to add multiple matches. > > Note that matches are local to the window and any split windows will not > contain any matches defined directly in the .vimrc. > > See here for a more complete discussion: > > http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Highlight_long_lines > http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Highlight_unwanted_spaces
Also read through :help match-highlight in its entirety. -- 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
