How do I make vim syntax highlight a whole line?
highlighting, line, syntax, syntax-highlighting, vim
Solution
From the documentation on `syn-pattern`:
The highlighted area will never be outside of the matched text.
I'd count myself surprised if you got this to work, but then again, Vim is always full of surprises.
Problem
I'd like to have vim highlight entire lines that match certain patterns. I can get all the text in a line to highlight (by doing `syn match MyMatch "^.*text-to-match.*$"`), but it always stops at the end of the text. I'd like to to continue to the end of the term, like highlighting CursorLine. I've tried replacing `$` with a `\n^`, hoping that would wrap it around. No change. (I didn't actually expect this would work, but there's no harm in trying.) I also tried adjusting the syn-pattern-offset (which I read about here: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/syntax.html#:syn-pattern). Long story short, adding `he=he-5` will highlight 5 fewer characters, but `he=he+5` doesn't show any extra characters because there aren't characters to highlight. This is my first attempt at making a vim syntax and I'm relatively new to vim. Please be gentle and include explanations. Thanks! (edit: Forgot to include, this is a multiline highlight. That probably increases the complexity a bit.)