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nst0022
nst0022

Reputation: 469

Vim syntax highlighting of a Python formatted string

I am using Vim 8.1 on Debian 11 Bullseye, but it does not work in the recent Vim 8.2 either.

I would like to syntax highlight a Python formatted string, which looks currently in vim so:

is

but should look like this:

should

(compare the curly braces and their content)

Does anyone know of a plugin that does this "properly", or can provide the syntax I need to insert in /usr/share/vim/vim81/syntax/python.vim to achieve this highlighting?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2402

Answers (2)

Felixoid
Felixoid

Reputation: 593

The plugin vim-python/python-syntax has a broken syntax highlighting for f-strings, see https://github.com/vim-python/python-syntax/issues/98

But the fix (not complete yet) exists in vim repository: https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/14057

To try it now one can execute the following code:

mkdir -p "$HOME/.vim/syntax
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vim/vim/21c6d8b5b6ef510c9c78b9dfb89a41146599505f/runtime/syntax/python.vim \
  > "$HOME/.vim/syntax/python.vim"

After that, the f-strings are highlighted as a regular code

enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

nst0022
nst0022

Reputation: 469

There is an appropriate highlighter on github: https://github.com/vim-python/python-syntax

In .vimrc, you need to enable either everything with

let g:python_highlight_all = 1

or specifics, like I did:

let g:python_highlight_string_format = 1
let g:python_highlight_builtin_objs  = 1

A python formatted string now looks like:

enter image description here

(with my color definitions)

Upvotes: 7

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