From 396e1ac6b6eefa51515335595a0b1e5519e598a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sharkdp <davidpeter@web.de>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 20:37:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add simple pattern for command-line options

---
 assets/syntaxes/Manpage.sublime-syntax | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/assets/syntaxes/Manpage.sublime-syntax b/assets/syntaxes/Manpage.sublime-syntax
index d5f49add..e99c2497 100644
--- a/assets/syntaxes/Manpage.sublime-syntax
+++ b/assets/syntaxes/Manpage.sublime-syntax
@@ -42,3 +42,12 @@ contexts:
         2: keyword.operator
         3: constant.numeric
         4: keyword.operator
+
+    # command-line options like --option=value, --some-flag, or -x
+    - match: '(?:[^a-zA-Z0-9_-]|^|\s)(--?[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9-]*)(?:(=)?("?)([A-Za-z0-9]+)("?))?'
+      captures:
+        1: entity.name
+        2: keyword.operator
+        3: punctuation.definition.string.begin
+        4: variable.parameter
+        3: punctuation.definition.string.end