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Fix YAML syntax highlighting in VIM

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Mar 15, 20263329 views

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The YAML syntax highlighting in Vim 7.3 isn't great. Putting an apostrophe in a line of text triggers quote highlighting even when there's no quote. The same thing happens in other files sometimes too. I've posted a screenshot below. Is there any way to fix this behavior, or is there a different YA…

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look at your vim7.3 installation directory under , roughly line 32: if you throw that out, vim wont try to guess that is not the start of a string. the only other way imho would be to change the code so a only count as the start of a string, if the …

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Fix YAML syntax highlighting in VIM

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