Question

In a vim syntax file I want to

• name one match foo followed by bar
• and another bar that follows foo

And have them both work.

Here is what I have so far

 syn match myFoo /foo\zebar/ display

 syn match myBar /foo\zsbar/ display

When I do that it only matches the latter one.
I cant get both foo and bar to match.

Answer 1

Try this:

syn match myFoo /foo/ contained
syn match myBar /bar/ contained
syn match myFooBar /foobar/ contains=myFoo,myBar

I’ve confirmed that it works. I have Vim coloring foobar where the foo is one color and bar is a different color. And this only happens if they are together as foobar; otherwise they are not colorized. I assigned them to different categories like this:

hi def link myFoo Keyword
hi def link myBar Type

You probably have this covered already.