Fallthrough triggers

[Ulenspiegel]

I wonder if it's possible to execute multiple triggers per line? What I'd like to achieve is, have two highlights, one highlight triggers first and colors a whole block of text (matching a regex), and then second highlight passes through the same line and possibly colors certain keywords in already highlighted block. Is there an idiomatic way to achieve that?

[scandum]

Hi, you can use priorities to set the trigger order, for example:

#high {%*} {green} {5}
#high {bla} {blue} {6}
#showme bli bla blo

[Ulenspiegel]

Fantastic; thank you! Oddly enough, I've started with that, but in my case it refused to work, and seems like the culprit in my case was 24-bit color, I've been specifying my colors using <FXXXXXX> notation. So, your example above works perfectly, but if I'll substitute 'green' with <F00FF00>, 'bli' is green, 'bla' is blue, and 'blo' ends up being default (white) foreground color. I'm not sure what kind of mistake I'm making with specifying color by code instead of name, but I suppose I'll stick to names for now.

[scandum]

Unfortunately, 24-bit color codes aren't properly supported by #highlight, but you should be able to use 256 color codes.