Hi Justin! On Sa, 14 Feb 2015, Justin M. Keyes wrote:
> 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. I can't find it. Possibly it got lost, when I switched my working machines. It probably wouldn't apply anymore since it was done before the NFA Regexp Engine was merged. Best, 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 --- 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.
