vim syntax for markdown

[Aristeidis Dimitriadis]

Hello there!

the package vim-common includes a file that defines markdown's syntax
for highlighting. it can be found at
/usr/share/vim/vim82/syntax/markdown.vim. however, it seems to me that
there is something wrong in this file. if i write:

***Something***

and something else

then "and something else" is also highlighted like "Something". vim does
not seem to get that the highlighted region ended at "***". this applies
for "*" and "**" as well but not for "_", "__" and "___". I worked
around that by deleting the "skip" attribute in lines 91,93 and 95 of
the file. but this approach seems wrong too because now i cannot skip a
"*" with the "" character. this is not really important for me but i
guess there must be a way to properly define it. does anyone have any idea?

Aristeidis

PS: tested on fully updated F31 and F30

[Todd Zullinger]

Hi,

Aristeidis Dimitriadis wrote:
> Hello there!
>
> the package vim-common includes a file that defines markdown's syntax
> for highlighting. it can be found at
> /usr/share/vim/vim82/syntax/markdown.vim. however, it seems to me that
> there is something wrong in this file. if i write:
>
> ***Something***
>
> and something else
>
> then "and something else" is also highlighted like "Something". vim does
> not seem to get that the highlighted region ended at "***". this applies
> for "*" and "**" as well but not for "_", "__" and "___". I worked
> around that by deleting the "skip" attribute in lines 91,93 and 95 of
> the file. but this approach seems wrong too because now i cannot skip a
> "*" with the "" character. this is not really important for me but i
> guess there must be a way to properly define it. does anyone have any idea?

This looks like it was reported and fixed upstream:

https://github.com/tpope/vim-markdown/issues/151

You might try grabbing the updated markdown.vim from there
or the vim repo to test.

The changes were merged into the vim repo here:

https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/syntax/markdown.vim

[Todd Zullinger]

I wrote:
> You might try grabbing the updated markdown.vim from there
> or the vim repo to test.

Or watch for vim-8.2.158-1 to land in updates-testing for
f30 and f31 in the next updates push.  They've been
submitted as updates and should reach testing very soon.

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=vim

[Aristeidis Dimitriadis]

Thanks!

using the file from, vim still doesn't skip the "*" character with a ""
within a "**", or "***" block. it does skip it within "*" blocks.

but i guess github is the appropriate place for reporting stuff like this.

On 1/30/20 10:00 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> I wrote:
> > You might try grabbing the updated markdown.vim from there
> > or the vim repo to test.
>
> Or watch for vim-8.2.158-1 to land in updates-testing for
> f30 and f31 in the next updates push.  They've been
> submitted as updates and should reach testing very soon.
>
> https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=vim
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