On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 1:51 AM, Christian Brabandt <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 2015-02-13 07:05, schrieb Dominique Pellé: >> >> Justin M. Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> How to search for the next instance of a syntax group? >>> >>> For example, say I have this .bashrc file: >>> >>> ls foo >>> rm foo >>> >>> "ls" is assigned the "bashStatement" syntax group. >>> >>> How do I jump to the next token with that group? >>> >>> Is there a way to get the regex expression from a syntax group? >>> >>> If not... seems like there should be. A syntax-highlighted buffer has >>> lots of information encoded in it. There should be a way to leverage >>> that with motions, /, :s, and :g. > > > Currently it only works for :s by using the hack > :s/foobar/\=synIDattr(synID(..),'name')=~?'Comment'?'FOOBAR':submatch(0)/ > >> Maybe the SyntaxMotion plugin is useful to you: >> >> http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2965 >> >>> Is there a way to get the regex expression from a syntax group? >> >> >> No, but I've been wondering about this too. It could be useful >> to search by syntax group. > > > It's in the todo list buried. search for \%h and \%s > > In fact, this was a reason, why I started hacking Vim source.
Very interesting! Did you think at the time it would be a pretty straightforward thing? Because that's what I was thinking, so I'm glad you warned me ... :) > Unfortunately, it didn't work completly and messed up syntax highlighting > badly. Do you have the patch somewhere? It's not linked in the todo.txt. Justin M. Keyes -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
