Martin Toft Bay's

Google Summer of Code Blog (from 2007)

Friday, July 6, 2007

It's alive!

Now nothing will stop you from going absolutely crazy with highlights in Vim:

It's alive!

As hinted in my previous post, the bug

Allow more than 3 ":match" items.

turned out to be more of a feature addition than a bug. The limit was literally hardcoded everywhere in the Vim source code and major changes were unavoidable. I have implemented the functionality as functions, as it will be used mostly by scripts (probably). Example of usage:

:highlight MyGroup1 ctermfg=yellow ctermbg=blue
:highlight MyGroup2 ctermfg=white ctermbg=red
:let m1 = matchadd("MyGroup1", "TODO")
:let m2 = matchadd("MyGroup2", "FIXME")
:call matchdelete(m1)
:call matchdelete(m2)

I still need to change the underlying code for the old :match command, so it will use the new data structures transparently. Also, I plan to create a matchlist function and to write some tests for all this new stuff in Vim's testdir.

All posts

2007-08-03 - What I've fixed since the previous post
2007-07-06 - It's alive!
2007-07-05 - Finally I'm hacking!
2007-04-16 - First post