How to figure out which color group a piece of code belongs to in VIM

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Is there a way to figure out which color-group a piece of code belongs to? I'm struggling to get my colorscheme to work nicely with various filetypes. It would be handy to have a command that prints out the current color-group for the text at the current cursor position.

for example ([X] marks the cursor position:

def foobar
  @some[X]thing = "foo"
end

would print out "Identifier" (If I'm right about that one ;-)) Is anything like that possible? Or do you have any other recommendation how to "solve" the problem of identifying the right color groups to use?

thanks for pointing this out (dunno why this is worth downvoting though). Voted for close because of duplicate — Pascal, Jul 04 '12 at 13:35

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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See here: Find out to which highlight-group a particular keyword/symbol belongs in vim

In addition, there's even a ready-to-use plugin for that: SyntaxAttr.vim

edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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answered Jul 04 '12 at 13:37

Ingo Karkat

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