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Gidgidonihah
Gidgidonihah

Reputation: 18553

custom keyword highlighted as todo in vi

Starting with vim and love that it highlights todo comments. Around here, however we use a custom keyword (first initial last initial todo: abTODO) so it's easy to grep for todos that apply to a specific person.

I'd love to add mine as a keyword that vi picks up and highlights along with todo, fixme and xxx.

In vim, how do I highlight TODO: and FIXME:? seems to apply, but using the following does not work:

syn match   myTodo   contained   "abTODO"
hi def link myTodo Todo

UPDATE

In my .vimrc I have the following 3 lines (as suggested):

syntax enable
syn match myTodo "\<\l\{2\}TODO\>"
hi def link myTodo Todo

That is a lowercase L, not 1. However abTODO is still not being highlighted at all.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2796

Answers (1)

Prince Goulash
Prince Goulash

Reputation: 15735

Try this match:

syn match myTodo "\<\l\{2\}TODO\>"

Explanation:

  • \< matches the beginning of a word
  • \l\{2\} matches precisely two lowercase letters
  • TODO\> matches the string TODO at the end of the word

Your highlight command is fine at it is. I don't think the contained option is necessary here.

Upvotes: 3

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