A Python color syntax file for VIM

[scott]

On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 12:59:39AM +0000, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> I don't want to ram my beliefs down everbody's throat though.
> Users of python.vim, please vote:
> 
>     a) more highlighting
>     b) less highlighting
>     c) its perfect, don't mess with it
> 
> If I get enought votes I will post a summary.  I guess emacs (and

I think that different people like different types of highlighting, so
It would probably be best if lots of individual things could be turned
on and off, and some default setting for lots and just a little
highlighting be made.

I don't like a lot of highlighting either, but I did make the
following changes to my python.vim file in order to have printf-like
characters and %(substitute-me)s strings stand out from within
strings.  It seems to makes it much clearer what is happening with
strings 99% of the time, and follows vim's c-highlighting lead a bit.


syn match   pythonSpecialCharacter      "\\['\"?\\abfnrtv]" contained
syn match   pythonSpecialCharacter      "\\\(0x\)\=[0123456789]\{1,3}" contained
hi link pythonSpecialCharacter        pythonFormat
syn match   pythonFormat                contained "%%"
syn match   pythonFormat                "%\(\d\+\$\)\=[-+' #0*]*\(\d*\|\*\|\*\d\+\$\)\(\.\(\d*\|\*\|\*\d\+\$\)\)\=\([hlL]\|ll\)\=\([diuoxXfeEgGcCsSpn]\|\[\^\=.[^]]*\]\)" contained
syn match   pythonFormat                "%([^)]\+)\(\d\+\(\.\d\+\)\=\)\=[sdf]" contained
syn region  pythonString		start=+'+  end=+'+ skip=+\\\\\|\\'+ contains=pythonFormat,pythonSpecialCharacter
syn region  pythonString		start=+"+  end=+"+ skip=+\\\\\|\\"+ contains=pythonFormat,pythonSpecialCharacter
syn region  pythonString		start=+"""+  end=+"""+ contains=pythonFormat,pythonSpecialCharacter
syn region  pythonString		start=+'''+  end=+'''+ contains=pythonFormat,pythonSpecialCharacter

scott