Christian Brabandt wrote:
Am 2014-05-02 23:46, schrieb shawn wilson:
Sometimes (especially in documentation) syntax highlighting really
messes up. However, I don't really want to highlight documentation
anyway, so can I disable it per line?
So, basically, what I want is to be able to select a block and say,
don't do anything from within this block (and maybe have it set a mark
or something so that I can insert stuff in the middle and it won't
mess with new text)?
No. There is really no builtin way to disable syntax linewise. It
doesn't really
make sense anyhow, as the syntax engine often needs to match across
lines and
therefore depends on it.
As for your original problem, read the help at :h :syn-sync and see if
you can
manually resync the syntax engine, if you notice wrong behaviour. I
assume,
you only experience this for a specific filetype, so it might be a
good idea to
report those bugs to the maintainer of that specific syntax script.
Look into the
$VIMRUNTIME/syntax/<language>.vim script for his contact data.
Nevertheless, you can trick the syntax engine to stop highlighting
specific
lines. This is rather hacky approach, but it should work. You would
add some
specific syntax matches, that link to a not-defined syntax group and
use a pattern with the \%l line matching.
E.g. to stop syntax highlighting in the lines 75-80 in the current
buffer,
issue: :syn match NoSyntax /\%>74l.*\%<81l/
This should clear syntax highlighting (except for keywords). I'll
attach a
plugin like script, to test this out. Drawback is, it needs to
manually update
the regions since those ranges given in the syn-match command will be
fixed and not
updated when lines changed. For that reason, that script tries to
update the
regions on TextChanged autocommands. Not sure, how useful this is.
Hello, Christian:
You might want to include "containedin=ALL" in your syntax line, too.
Regards,
Chip Campbell
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