On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Jan Kaspar <jan.kas...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I may have quite a stupid question - is it possible to highlight a full
> line?
>
> I'd like to give a different background color to a block of code (a class
> definition, doxygen documentation, etc). To do so, I use :highlight ...
> guibg=... command. This works, but only the part of line which contains some
> text, is eventually highlighted. This looks strange and disturbs eyes. I'd
> like get also the part from line-end onwards highlighted. Is that possible?
> How?
>

You could use :syn match, i.e.

:syn match YourSynType "^.*yourpattern.*$"
:hi YourSynType guibg=skyblue

I don't see how to highlight past the end, though.

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