I want to highlight the pipe symbol | in otherwise straight plain text. I created an addition to the syntax file to color it red, but it only works for about the first dozen instances, then it remains black.

/L12"TEXT" TEXT File Extensions = TXT
/C2
|

Am I missing something? Or is there a better way to do this?

Mofi, the man who never sleeps.

My test file is 135 lines long, with 5 pipes per line.

With the original
/L12"TEXT" TEXT File Extensions = TXT
/C2
|
I get the first 18 lines with red pipes; the rest remain black

Adding the line
/Delimiters = ~!@%^&*()-+=|\/{}[]:;"'<> ,tab.? (and a whole mess of variations)
changes all pipes to black.

Adding
/Delimiters = |
Changes all the pipes in lines 1 to 19 red; all the pipes in lines 20 to 43 black, and the last three pipes in lines 44 to 135 to red.

No matter what I try, I can not get a consistant result. This is frustrating.