Text Formatting ⇒ citeasnoun highlighting

[Captain Lightning]

Hello all,

I am a very new user sorry, here goes....

I am using latex on vim in linux (actually gvim), and I have a syntax highlighting problem:

when write \citeasnoun{thecitation} only the portion of it 'cite' is highlighted.

whereas I would like it to behave the same way as \cite{thecitation} where the entire term is highlighted.

Has anyone come across this before?

Thanks

[frabjous]

This is based largely on guesswork but seems to work for me. (I should note that I'm not using the vim-LaTeX suite plugin, so I hope that isn't involved here.)

First, make a personal copy of the tex.vim syntax highlighting file. For me, this involved the following commands from the terminal.

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mkdir -p $HOME/.vim/syntax
cp /usr/share/vim/vim73/syntax/tex.vim $HOME/.vim/syntax/tex.vim

You may need to check the exact path to tex.vim, which may vary by distribution, and certainly varies by vim version. (I'm using 7.3 on Arch Linux.)

Now edit the file you just created ($HOME/.vim/syntax/tex.vim) and look for the line:

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syn match  texRefZone		'\\cite\%([tp]\*\=\)\=' nextgroup=texRefOption,texCite

And a line just under it, just like it but with \\citeasnoun in place of \\cite

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syn match  texRefZone		'\\cite\%([tp]\*\=\)\=' nextgroup=texRefOption,texCite
syn match  texRefZone		'\\citeasnoun\%([tp]\*\=\)\=' nextgroup=texRefOption,texCite

(I'm sure there's a way to do it on a single like with vim's regex patterns, but I'm too lazy to figure it out right now.)

Save and you should be all set. (Fingers crossed.)

[Captain Lightning]

Perfect thanks, I was previously attempting a similar process in the latex-suite without any luck.

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