> I'm trying to highlight specific letters in words in a specific column. > I have a file looking like this > > word_1 long_word_1 > word_2 long_word_2 > word_3 long_word_3 > ... > > where word_n are all different and of varying (or equal) length, and > long_word_n are all different but of the same length. word_n and > long_word_n are separated by white space. > > I want to highlight every letter, e.g., 'A', in long_word_n, but not in > word_n. > > Question: How do I limit my match to apply to only the second column? > > My current code (below) is too greedy -- the match is on every > occurrence of A (or a) in each line. > > Current code: > > syn match myA "[Aa]\+" > highlight myA guifg=black guibg=yellow
You might try using the pattern \(^\w*\s\+\w*\)\@<=[Aa] as in syn match myA "\(^\w*\s\+\w*\)\@<=[aA]" which seems to do what you describe. -tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
