Question

How do I highlight operators/parentheses/brackets/etc. in VIM? I’m not interested in coloring matching or unmatching parentheses/brackets.

I’ve tried ‘:hi cBracket/whatnot guifg=something’ and ‘:hi Operator/cOperator guifg=something’ but these don’t seem to affect anything.

Answer 1

There are two parts to Vim syntax coloring: the syn command and the hi command.

As far as I understand, you use syn to define syntax. For example:

syn match parens /[(){}]/ 

Then you use hi to tell Vim how to highlight parens:

hi parens ctermfg=red