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braces and operators coloring in vim for c++?

Hello.

I want to customize a syntax coloring in vim for c++. But, unfortunately, i still can't find a correct name for braces (){}[] and operators +-/*% for c/c++/objc/objcpp. Any vim guru whi can suggest what name i must 'hi' in order to set color for items mentioned?

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Al  2009-07-29 11:31:07
Thanks for braces, it's good to know that they are not highlighted and i don't required to hack through c.vim :). And what about operators like +-/*%^ etc?
Eye of Hell  2009-07-29 11:37:33
Most operators don't seem to be highlighted by default. I've added a description of an easy (once you've defined a mapping) way of finding out the highlight group of the keyword or symbol under the cursor. That's how I found out the answer to your question...
Al  2009-07-29 12:19:09
A similar ":syn match" line could be used if you want to highlight operators: syn match Operator display '[+-/*%^]'
Al  2009-07-29 12:21:56
I've added a rather complicated possible operator matching script. It isn't simple (and it's probably not exactly right) but it should match things like <<=, << and !=, but not !==, ===, ---, <=> etc. I wrote it as the closest thing that vim has to "Verbose Regular Expressions" as it's too complicated as a single line version.
Al  2009-07-29 13:00:51

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