I just found a pandoc.vim syntax file at github that appears to does the job… only had to do a ':set cole=0' to get rid of the fancy 'conceal' gimmickry and it seems to highlight inline foonotes reliably.
Sorry fo the noise. CJ On Monday, November 11, 2019 at 7:20:16 PM UTC-5, Chris Jones wrote: > I would need to highlight blocks of text delimited by opening/closing > parentheses of any given type (regular, square, curly, squiggly, etc.). > > For instance: > > '… this is some text (here is a parenthesized block) that I would like to > stand out.' > > then a few lines down: > > '… more text an here again (I have another parenthesized block) that I > also want highlighted. > > This one is simple enough… after I ':set hls' and search via '/(.*)' the > parenthesized text is matched by the regex and highlighted as specified by > the color scheme. > > It gets a little less obvious when some of the parenthesized blocks may > span more than a single lines. > > Is there any way this can be done via vim regular expressions? > > N.B. I know about the matching paren thingy but that is not what I want — > I want the whole 'opening paren+text+closing paren' to stand out. > > The context is that I have some rather large markdown files to inspect > with numerous inline footnotes whose syntax is: > > '^[ footnote ]' > > and I am looking for a reliable way to make such footnotes stand out so I > can (1) spot them at a glance and (2) easily check that they are > syntaxically AOK. > > To keep it simple I am not concerned about the possiblity of having square > bracketed text within the footnotes. > > Thanks, > > CJ > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/f87820bc-2b2f-4227-8d4e-c331276873e4%40googlegroups.com.
