problems with highlighting

[Michael Goerz]

Hi,

in order to add some special highlighting for tex files, I created a
file ~/.vim/after/syntax.tex, that contains the following two lines:

syntax match texSectionTitle "\\section{[^}]}"
highlight texSectionTitle term=bold ctermfg=Red guifg=#80a0ff gui=bold

As far as I understand the docs, this should create some highlighting of
a section title. However, nothing happens. The section title's
highlighting is unchanged from what was defined in the global tex.vim.
Any suggestions on how do get this right? If I choose other pattern, it
doesn't work either. Executing ':highlight' shows that the definition of
texSectionTitle has been loaded. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Michael

[bill lam]

Michael Goerz wrote:
> syntax match texSectionTitle "\\section{[^}]}"

did you try \\\\section instead of \\section ? perl -pie needed this pattern
last time that I worked on latex files.

HTH

[Michael Goerz]

Yeah, I tried that, too. No effect. It doesn't seem like the pattern is
the problem. Even if I put in a simple word, that word doesn't change
highlighting. There's just no effect at all.

Michael

[Michael Goerz]

Michael Goerz wrote, on 05/17/2008 04:10 AM:
> Hi,
>
> in order to add some special highlighting for tex files, I created a
> file ~/.vim/after/syntax.tex, that contains the following two lines:
>
> syntax match texSectionTitle "\\section{[^}]}"
> highlight texSectionTitle term=bold ctermfg=Red guifg=#80a0ff gui=bold
>
> As far as I understand the docs, this should create some highlighting of
> a section title. However, nothing happens. The section title's
> highlighting is unchanged from what was defined in the global tex.vim.

> Any suggestions on how do get this right? If I choose other patterns, it

> doesn't work either. Executing ':highlight' shows that the definition of
> texSectionTitle has been loaded. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I got it right now. The main problem was that I had to add my new
groupname to the "contains" argument of the texDocZone region that's
defined in the standard tex highlighting file. My modified syntax file
is in the attachment. I put it in ~/.vim/syntax.

Cheers,
Michael

[Peter Hodge]

--- Michael Goerz <go...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> in order to add some special highlighting for tex files, I created a
> file ~/.vim/after/syntax.tex, that contains the following two lines:

Hi,

Doesn't the syntax file need to be named ~/.vim/after/syntax/tex.vim?

regards,
Peter

>
> syntax match texSectionTitle "\\section{[^}]}"
> highlight texSectionTitle term=bold ctermfg=Red guifg=#80a0ff gui=bold
>
> As far as I understand the docs, this should create some highlighting of
> a section title. However, nothing happens. The section title's
> highlighting is unchanged from what was defined in the global tex.vim.
> Any suggestions on how do get this right? If I choose other pattern, it
> doesn't work either. Executing ':highlight' shows that the definition of
> texSectionTitle has been loaded. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
> >
>

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[Michael Goerz]

I just noticed a problem with the file. It seems that using the syntax
file has a very bizarre effect concerning spell checking. Normal text is
no longer spell checked, except parts that are in parentheses! Does
anyone have an explanation for this behavior?

Thanks,
Michael