flope wrote:
Hi,
this is my second post. so I am new in vim (gvim).
I would like to know if it possible to highlight a specific character such
as ";" differently from others.
I tried different things but without success. Should I do that in my color
scheme?
Don't use a colorscheme, use the ":match" statement (see ":help :match").
For instance, to highlight all semicolons in the same colour as the bracket
under the cursor and its mate, (in gvim that would be black on cyan, unless
changed by a colorscheme) use
:match MatchParen /;/
I use to edit perl scripts so If I load my colorscheme in the .gvimrc file
and the syntax is on, is the perl syntax overwritten by my color scheme? at
least some of the parameters?
A colour scheme has nothing to do with "syntax" (e.g. what is an Identifier
and what is a Comment), it has everything to do with "colouring" (e.g.,
whether to show comments in blue on white, or in yellow on black). Syntax
scripts are concerned with both.
A properly-built colorscheme should not be overridden by any properly-built
syntax script. A syntax script should use the "default" modifier in all its
":highlight" statements (so as not to override settings already set by a
colorscheme) and it should use ":highlight default link" in preference to
specific colours whenever possible. When ":syntax on" is used after your
colorscheme has been set, the latter is (IIUC) re-invoked, thanks to the
"g:colors_name" variable.
thank you for your help!!!
My pleasure.
Best regards,
Tony.
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