highlighting prefixed keywords

[Jorge Almeida]

I need to apply custom highligthing in a setup that should be simple
for people who understand highligthing:

I have a bunch of keywords with a common prefix, the single character
'c'. The keywords are to be listed one by one, not obtained via some
algorithm. Example:

cmount
cumount
copen
cclose
(etc)

So, I want to highlight these keywords, *minus the prefix*, with some
colour (say, the same colour for all keywords). That is, in "cmount",
only "mount" should be coloured, not the leading 'c'.

TIA

Jorge Almeida

[Tim Chase]

Does

:match Error /\%(\<c\)\@<=\w\+/

give you what you're looking for? Alternatively, if they're a fixed
list of keywords, you can join them together something like

:match Error /\%(\<c\)\@<=\(mount\|umount\|open\|close\)/

You can adjust the color group to something other than Error, as
that's just what I chose by default.

-tim

[Jorge Almeida]

On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Tim Chase <v...@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 2017-12-17 18:49, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>> I need to apply custom highligthing in a setup that should be simple
>> for people who understand highligthing:
>>
>> I have a bunch of keywords with a common prefix, the single
>> character 'c'. The keywords are to be listed one by one, not
>> obtained via some algorithm. Example:
>>
>> cmount
>> cumount
>> copen
>> cclose
>> (etc)
>>
>> So, I want to highlight these keywords, *minus the prefix*, with
>> some colour (say, the same colour for all keywords). That is, in
>> "cmount", only "mount" should be coloured, not the leading 'c'.
>
> Does
>
> :match Error /\%(\<c\)\@<=\w\+/
>
> give you what you're looking for? Alternatively, if they're a fixed
> list of keywords, you can join them together something like
>
> :match Error /\%(\<c\)\@<=\(mount\|umount\|open\|close\)/
>

Indeed it does! (Well, the latter suggestion does.)

I did this:

highlight macro_skin guibg=bg guifg=DarkGreen gui=bold ctermfg=022 cterm=bold
match macro_skin /\%(\<c\)\@<=\(mount\|umount\|open\|close\)/

And that's it. (And just a few minutes after posting, to boot!)

Just a detail: is it possible to enumerate the keywords in a separate
declaration, to improve maintainability? (The actual list is more
extense). I'm thinking of something similar to:

syntax keyword Foo open close mount umount

Even if it's not possible, this is good enough.

Thanks

Jorge

[Tim Chase]

On 2017-12-17 19:16, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> Just a detail: is it possible to enumerate the keywords in a
> separate declaration, to improve maintainability? (The actual list
> is more extense). I'm thinking of something similar to:
>
> syntax keyword Foo open close mount umount
>
> Even if it's not possible, this is good enough.

Also, one might use

syn match jaKeyword /\<c\%(umount\|mount\|open\|close\)/hs=s+1
hi def link jaKeyword Identifier

which simplifies the syntax a bit.

Despite multiple attempts, I was unable to get it to work with
syn-keyword as it seems to want a Word boundary between the /\<c/ and
the keyword. I tried

syn region jaKeywordRegion start='\<c'rs=s+1 end='\>' contains=jaKeyword transparent
"syn keyword jaKeyword contained umount mount open close
syn match jaKeyword contained /umount\|mount\|open\|close/
hi def link jaKeyword Identifier

and it worked fine with the "match" version but failed with the
"keyword" version. I also tried various configurations of ms= and
rs= offsets to no avail.

-tim

[Jorge Almeida]

On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 9:14 PM, Tim Chase <v...@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 2017-12-17 19:16, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>> Just a detail: is it possible to enumerate the keywords in a
>> separate declaration, to improve maintainability? (The actual list
>> is more extense). I'm thinking of something similar to:
>>
>> syntax keyword Foo open close mount umount
>>

> syn match jaKeyword /\<c\%(umount\|mount\|open\|close\)/hs=s+1
> hi def link jaKeyword Identifier
>
> which simplifies the syntax a bit.
>

OK, thanks. As it stands now it does the job.

Syntax highlighting is a great feature. Pity that it's so difficult to learn.

Cheers

Jorge