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ZengJuchen
ZengJuchen

Reputation: 4811

Where can I find all detailed explanations for vim color theme items?

I made a semi_diy vim color theme online months ago.

But I find it not sufficient enough. So I tried manually fix it today.

But the problem is:

I can't find detailed explanations for these items online

Googled, went to vim.org, nothing.

Anyone knows where can I find detailed explanation for items such like(there are much more!) :

FoldColumn
PreProc
EnumerationName
Visual
MoreMsg
SpellCap
VertSplit
Exception
Keyword
Type
DiffChange
Cursor
SpellLocal
Error
PMenu
SpecialKey
Constant
DefinedName
Tag
String
PMenuThumb
MatchParen
LocalVariable
Repeat

Some of them are clear, but some are obscure.

For example, I have no idea what's the name of the function which examines if a bracket has a correspond another half bracket.

Help!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 71

Answers (2)

ravron
ravron

Reputation: 11211

Kent's answer gets at the root of your confusion. However, to directly answer your question:

The meaning of all of these highlight group identifiers can be found by opening vim and reading :h highlight-groups (which just jumps into syntax.txt, the file Kent mentions).

Upvotes: 1

Kent
Kent

Reputation: 195059

For example, I have no idea what's the name of the function which examines if a bracket has a correspond another half bracket.

I think you are confused by highlight-group and syntax

The things you've listed are not "functions" they are hi-groups. They decide How the color-highlighting should be applied. E.g. foreground red, background yellow, bold font etc. They don't decide when the groups should be used. It was done by syntax.

You can define for example, string starts with # and ends with @@ apply hi-group Exception.

Then the corresponding part in this is #foo bar blah@@ something else would be highlighted using hi-group "Exception"

For writing syntax file, you have to read :h syntax for details.

Upvotes: 3

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