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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001" Vim syntax file
2" Language: M4
Bram Moolenaar8ada17c2006-01-19 22:16:24 +00003" Maintainer: Claudio Fleiner (claudio@fleiner.com)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004" URL: http://www.fleiner.com/vim/syntax/m4.vim
Bram Moolenaar8ada17c2006-01-19 22:16:24 +00005" Last Change: 2005 Jan 15
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006
7" This file will highlight user function calls if they use only
8" capital letters and have at least one argument (i.e. the '('
9" must be there). Let me know if this is a problem.
10
Bram Moolenaar89bcfda2016-08-30 23:26:57 +020011" quit when a syntax file was already loaded
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012if !exists("main_syntax")
Bram Moolenaar89bcfda2016-08-30 23:26:57 +020013 if exists("b:current_syntax")
14 finish
15 endif
16 " we define it here so that included files can test for it
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017 let main_syntax='m4'
18endif
19
20" define the m4 syntax
21syn match m4Variable contained "\$\d\+"
22syn match m4Special contained "$[@*#]"
Bram Moolenaar8ada17c2006-01-19 22:16:24 +000023syn match m4Comment "\<\(m4_\)\=dnl\>.*" contains=SpellErrors
Bram Moolenaar63f32602022-06-09 20:45:54 +010024syn match m4Comment "#.*" contains=SpellErrors
Bram Moolenaar8ada17c2006-01-19 22:16:24 +000025syn match m4Constants "\<\(m4_\)\=__file__"
26syn match m4Constants "\<\(m4_\)\=__line__"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027syn keyword m4Constants divnum sysval m4_divnum m4_sysval
28syn region m4Paren matchgroup=m4Delimiter start="(" end=")" contained contains=@m4Top
29syn region m4Command matchgroup=m4Function start="\<\(m4_\)\=\(define\|defn\|pushdef\)(" end=")" contains=@m4Top
30syn region m4Command matchgroup=m4Preproc start="\<\(m4_\)\=\(include\|sinclude\)("he=e-1 end=")" contains=@m4Top
31syn region m4Command matchgroup=m4Statement start="\<\(m4_\)\=\(syscmd\|esyscmd\|ifdef\|ifelse\|indir\|builtin\|shift\|errprint\|m4exit\|changecom\|changequote\|changeword\|m4wrap\|debugfile\|divert\|undivert\)("he=e-1 end=")" contains=@m4Top
32syn region m4Command matchgroup=m4builtin start="\<\(m4_\)\=\(len\|index\|regexp\|substr\|translit\|patsubst\|format\|incr\|decr\|eval\|maketemp\)("he=e-1 end=")" contains=@m4Top
33syn keyword m4Statement divert undivert
34syn region m4Command matchgroup=m4Type start="\<\(m4_\)\=\(undefine\|popdef\)("he=e-1 end=")" contains=@m4Top
35syn region m4Function matchgroup=m4Type start="\<[_A-Z][_A-Z0-9]*("he=e-1 end=")" contains=@m4Top
Bram Moolenaar63f32602022-06-09 20:45:54 +010036syn region m4String start="`" end="'" contains=SpellErrors
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037syn cluster m4Top contains=m4Comment,m4Constants,m4Special,m4Variable,m4String,m4Paren,m4Command,m4Statement,m4Function
38
39" Define the default highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar89bcfda2016-08-30 23:26:57 +020040" Only when an item doesn't have highlighting yet
Bram Moolenaarf37506f2016-08-31 22:22:10 +020041hi def link m4Delimiter Delimiter
42hi def link m4Comment Comment
43hi def link m4Function Function
44hi def link m4Keyword Keyword
45hi def link m4Special Special
46hi def link m4String String
47hi def link m4Statement Statement
48hi def link m4Preproc PreProc
49hi def link m4Type Type
50hi def link m4Special Special
51hi def link m4Variable Special
52hi def link m4Constants Constant
53hi def link m4Builtin Statement
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054
55let b:current_syntax = "m4"
56
57if main_syntax == 'm4'
58 unlet main_syntax
59endif
60
61" vim: ts=4