Actions to alter operators unclear

[slamDuncan52]

Perhaps its my unfamiliarity with vimscript, but I'm attempting to add colons (":") to the list of operators, which by default only contains commas (","). The other options, ctermfgs, parentheses etc. are all arrayed, and easy to extend. However, any attempts I make at adding colons to a list of operators have failed. The :help :syn-pattern has not been of great assistance to me. Thanks for any advice you have.

[slamDuncan52]

UPDATE: I fixed this one, just had to escape the alternator in the match sequence (a la "operators: ',|:',") Might want to mention this in documentation somewhere though, or link to http://vimregex.com/ over the syn-pattern documentation though, didn't help me much. Thanks for a great plugin regardless!

[SiddharthPant]

I am still not able to understand. I want to add +, *, / etc. to the list but any change just throws out a million errors. Can someone just plain write the operators line for me. Further explanation in newbie terms will be good.(FYI: I don't know regex or vimscript)

[SiddharthPant]

Finally found a solution in issues raised previously( Issue #3 ). I used this as my operators line.
'operators': '_,\|=\|+\|\*\|-\|\.\|;\||\|&\|?\|:\|<\|>\|%\|/[^/]_',
@slamDuncan52 in your update example you skipped the underscores. Basically whatever we write has to be within '_ and _' and like you said should be properly escaped with a \|
@luochen1990 Please instead of pointing to syn-pattern in help directly provide an example line in the documentation. But thanks, I made it sure to vote your plugin as Life Changing in vim.org/scripts

[luochen1990]

@SiddharthPant I'd like to provide a better document, but the reg-exp & syn-pattern syntax of vimscript is not easy to explain in a words, so I think the vim help doc chould explain these much better than I chould. And thx for your voting :)

[luochen1990]

The README is updated. I hope this can help more people to use this plugin without resistance.