I'm currently working on a folding-related plugin. Its main function is to generate good folds from syntax, spanning a function, its header comment, and one blank line after, so that a folded-up file ends up looking like a table of contents; each function takes exactly one line, and the only stuff that ends up unfolded is header comments and blank lines that serve to group them into sections. It also generates good summary lines; when you fold up a function, it replaces it with its prototype, and also extracts comments like //TODO and //FIXME in the body and adds them to the summary.
I would like to use color in the summary line, but I've run into trouble there. I want to make todo's and fixme's bold, like in the unfolded version, highlight keywords and tags, and dim some other information like length that would otherwise be intrusive. Unfortunately, the syntax-highlighting system just colors the whole line with the 'Folded' color. Using "syntax match regex containedin=Folded" doesn't seem to do anything useful, and the foldtext option (which I use to call the function that generates the summary line) only lets me return a string. So I don't seem to be able to do this. What I'd ideally like to do, is put some special sequences in foldtext's return value. Any ideas for how to get multicolor foldtext? And if it's currently impossible, as I suspect, any chance of adding it in a future version? -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" 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
