On 2013-08-08, Christian Brabandt wrote: > Hi Gary! > > On Do, 08 Aug 2013, Gary Johnson wrote: > > > The following problem appears in vim 7.3.882 and 7.4b.19 on Linux. > > > > In the Vim src directory, in an 80x24 terminal, execute the > > following. > > > > vim -N -u NONE -c 'r !ls' +0 -c 'syn on' -c 'syn match Error > > /\.c\zs\n.*/' > > > > Scroll down a bit and you will see a few files highlighted, starting > > with arabic.h, buffer.c and config.aap.in. Continue scrolling down > > the buffer until some of the highlighted files scroll off the top of > > the display. Now scroll back up. None of the files that were > > scrolled off the top are highlighted any more. > > > > Syntax highlighting in general seems to work well. Patterns I use > > that do not include '\zs\n' work well. It seems to be just patterns > > containing '\zs\n' that have this problem. I don't know if this is > > a bug in Vim or a known limitation of certain patterns. > > > > The problem I'm really trying to solve is to highlight certain > > elements in a buffer containing the output of a static analysis > > tool. The first line of each error report is an easily identifiable > > pattern. I want to highlight the second line of each report, which > > contains the error description and which doesn't seem to follow any > > pattern. > > Hm, I don't see this with Vim 7.4b on linux.
I just repeated that command on a different Linux system, with vim 7.4b.8, with my ~/.vim and ~/.vimrc completely out of the way, and got the same results. Regards, Gary -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" 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_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
