i'm somewhat new to vim, and particularly new to making my own syntax file, so please forgive me if this is a dumb question :) basically, i'm using vim to keep a GTD style todo list, with various tasks tagged by context. the format of the file is as follows:
@vim @syntax : learn how to do write vim syntax files @vim @motions : learn more about motions @shopping @grocery : pick up bread on the way home ...etc these are all indented two spaces so that folding by indent works well for the various headings i've made. i've made a syntax file that does *almost* everything i want it to. the only thing i can't seem to get work is to get the tag identfier, namely "@", to be a different, but specified, color than the text following it. here's what i mean. in the syntax file, i have something similar to the following syn match tag /\s@/ highlight link tag Special this makes the whole thing, "@xxxxx", appear highlighted as Special. what i'd like to do, though, is have the @ be one color and the rest of the tag be another - Error, for example. I've tried the following: syn match tagtext /@[a-z]*/s+1 highlight link tagtext Error if the statements from above are in there, these lines appear not to make any difference. if they are not, the whole string gets highlighted as Error. I've tried multiple kinds of regexes, but it seems to me that when there are two that both have to do with the "@", they seem to be clobbering each other. Any suggestions? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/syntax---multiple-colors-in-same-string-tf3653839.html#a10207707 Sent from the Vim - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
