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Masked Man
Masked Man

Reputation: 11025

Make gvim markdown highlight ignore internal markers

I recently upgraded to gvim 7.3 and was pleased to find markdown highlighting. I also noticed that it treats "internal" _(underscore) as a marker. For example:

I want gvim to display emphasis here

but not_here

gvim actually displays the last line in my example as 'but not_here". It looks like SO's markdown interpretation is closer to what I want.

I do not say that gvim is "wrong" because I do not know what the correct markdown implementation is. However, is there a way to configure it so that the markers should be treated as normal text if they are surrounded by non-whitespace?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 1832

Answers (4)

lingceng
lingceng

Reputation: 2425

Try to use Github flavor markdown: https://github.com/jtratner/vim-flavored-markdown

Upvotes: 1

Matt
Matt

Reputation: 4989

I had these issues when documenting code in markdown files.

The solution I used was to put the offending sections in a codeblock with four spaces or in a code span with surrounding back ticks (`).

Upvotes: 2

Wouter J
Wouter J

Reputation: 41934

I have found a solution, which works in the things I have tested sofar.

Copy the %vim%/syntax/markdown.vim file into %/.vim/syntax/markdown.vim and change line 63 into:

syn region markdownItalic start="\s_\S\@=" end="\S\@<=_\|_\S\@=" keepend contains=markdownLineStart

Restart vim and it should match *this* and _this_ but not_this.

EDIT: Changed information, thanks to @ZyX

Upvotes: 4

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172550

The runtime files (especially if you use the old Vim 7.3.000 / 046 installer found on vim.org) aren't updated frequently. Most plugin authors publish more recent releases elsewhere, and they are only occasionally picked up by Vim.

In Tim Pope's repository, you'll find a newer version (that you can install into your ~/.vim directory) that doesn't show the problem; instead, it even highlights the single underscore character as an error.

Upvotes: 7

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