vim gvim syntax coloring bug with """docstrings"""

[Inyeol Lee]

Is your docstring longer than 200 lines?
This is from python syntax file 'vim58/syntax/python.vim'.

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" This is fast but code inside triple quoted strings screws it up. It
" is impossible to fix because the only way to know if you are inside a
" triple quoted string is to start from the beginning of the file. If
" you have a fast machine you can try uncommenting the "sync minlines"
" and commenting out the rest.
syn sync match pythonSync grouphere NONE "):$"
syn sync maxlines=200
"syn sync minlines=2000

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Inyeol Lee




hwlgw at hotmail.com (Will Stuyvesant) wrote in message news:<cb035744.0208090121.796fab82 at posting.google.com>...
> """So you want to document things huh?
> 
> When source files get bigger and you put a big docstring at the top
> gvim (and vim) makes a mess of the syntax coloring, making mistakes
> all over the file in what is code and what are comments.  Does anybody
> have a good .vimrc file that does not have this problem?  Or a
> python.vim file that you can just paste into the .vimrc?
> 
> """
> 
> also using ''' instead of """ does not help :-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> '''
> A CONS is an object which cares.
>                 -- Bernie Greenberg.
> '''