AW: Synchronize syntax highlighting

[Janis Papanagnou]

Sorry, John, somehow my mail-client sent my email to you instead of the mailing list.

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Von: Janis Papanagnou <janis_pa...@hotmail.com>
Gesendet: Sonntag, 9. August 2026 12:48
An: 'John Jackson' via vim_use
Betreff: Synchronize syntax highlighting

Sometimes, for some files, the sync of syntax-highlighting fails
(i.e. all text gets uniformly colored).

In the past, to tackle that, I've adjusted some vim parameter,
increased a value from something like 3000 to 10000, or so.
On my new system that setting got lost, unfortunately, and I
cannot find it.

Can someone point me to the name of that parameter, please,
so that I can re-establish a better highlighting-sync behavior.

Thanks!

Janis

[Janis Papanagnou]

[Tim Chase]

On 2026-08-09 10:48, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> Sometimes, for some files, the sync of syntax-highlighting fails
> (i.e. all text gets uniformly colored).
>
> In the past, to tackle that, I've adjusted some vim parameter,
> increased a value from something like 3000 to 10000, or so.
> On my new system that setting got lost, unfortunately, and I
> cannot find it.

I think you're looking for the minlines= and maxlines= values described
here:

:help syn-sync-maxlines
:help syn-sync-third

-tim
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[Christian Brabandt]

:h 'synmaxcol'

Best,
Christian
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