[Vimoutliner] Heading colorization problem with doublebyte characters

[Steve Litt]

On Tuesday 03 October 2006 10:02 am, apparit at inter7.jp wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried vimoutliner-0.3.4 with doublebyte characters (Japanese),
> and found a problem when used with doublebyte characters.
>
> Colors used for headings below the top level seem to be wrong
> when the heading has another heading of same level before it
> and the first character of the heading is doublebyte one.
> For example,
> ---
> Heading1
>     Heading2-1
>     Heading2-2
> ---
> In above case, Heading 2-2 is colored like Heading1, if the first character
> of Heading2-2 is doublebyte. It makes some confusion when used for
> outlining.
>
> I checked ${HOME}/syntax/vo_base.vim and found a sentence below:
> ---
> syntax region OL2 start=+^\t[^:\t]+ end=+^\t[^:\t]+me=e-2
> contains=outlTags,BT2,BT3,PT2,PT3,TA2,TA3,UT2,UT3,UB2,UB3,spellErr,
> SpellErrors,BadWord,OL3 keepend
> ---
>
> I temporary modified me=e-2 to me=s-1, and made similar modifications for
> other levels. So far this seems to fix the behavior.
>
> I am not familiar with vim programming, but it seems that
> when "[^:\t]" matches first doublebyte character,
> the offset (me=e-2) treats as if this were two characters and marks the
> region wrongly. If this is true, me=e-[number] in other positions may also
> make similar problems.
>
> Please check if this is true or not,
> and I hope this will be fixed in future releases.
> My vim version which caused this problem was 7.0 and 6.x
> (I forgot exact version number for 6.x).
>
> Please execuse me for poor English.
> Best wishes,

Hi,

Just to make sure it really has to do with Japanese 2 byte characters, could 
you please try it with regular ascii and see if the symptom goes away? If it 
does, we need to troubleshoot the character set. If it doesn't, there's 
something else we need to troubleshoot.

STeveT