Hi Tony Thank you so much for your explanation. Kind regards
tien ----- Original Message ----- From: "A.J.Mechelynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, March 30, 2007 10:17 pm Subject: Re: font colour and font size for a few words in VIM files > Tien Pham wrote: > > Hi all > > > > Is there anyway to change the background colour, font colour and > to > > convert normal font to bold font just for a few words in VIM files? > > > > I have a large file with many different sections and headings. I > have > > been trying to find a way to make some headings or some notes > standing > > out from the rest of the text by using different colours or > different > > font sizes but I could find these things from the help command. > I would > > appreciate if someone show me how to do it or tell me it cannot > be done > > in VIM so that I can stop searching for my solution. > > > > Many thanks > > tien > > > > Different font sizes are not possible. In Vim, all printable > characters must > be exactly the same height and width, with the exception of East- > Asian "wide" > characters, which must be exactly the same height and exactly > twice the width > of ASCII (or other "narrow") characters. > > Different colours, as well as bold and (in terminals which support > them) > underlined or italic, are possible using syntax highlighting. For > instance, in > HTML files, any combination of <b>, <i> and <u> tags produces the > corresponding combination of bold, italic and/or underlined text > in gvim. > Similarly, in help, the words "Note" and (IIRC) "TODO" are > highlighted in a > different colour than the rest (in gvim, usually black on yellow). > > The commands :match, :2match and :3match (the latter is used for > bracket > matching and only the former exists prior to version 7) allow > setting > different bg/fg colours for text which matches a certain regular > expression. > See > :help syntax.txt > :help :match > > > Best regards, > Tony. > -- > ... Our second completely true news item was sent to me by Mr. H. > BoyceConnell Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., where he is involved in a law > firm. One > thing I like about the South is, folks there care about tradition. > If > somebody gets handed a name like "H. Boyce," he hangs on to it, > puts it > on his legal stationery, even passes it to his son, rather than do > whata lesser person would do, such as get it changed or kill himself. > -- Dave Barry, "This Column is Nothing but the Truth!" >
