From dfe806ea8b90ace9ef2ee63aafbf10ebea2df7ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Björn Linse <bjorn.linse@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 11:46:07 +0200
Subject: bufhl: support creating new groups

---
 src/nvim/api/buffer.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'src/nvim/api/buffer.c')

diff --git a/src/nvim/api/buffer.c b/src/nvim/api/buffer.c
index 82de8fd4a2..c381e92dc7 100644
--- a/src/nvim/api/buffer.c
+++ b/src/nvim/api/buffer.c
@@ -793,7 +793,11 @@ Integer nvim_buf_add_highlight(Buffer buffer,
     col_end = MAXCOL;
   }
 
-  int hlg_id = syn_name2id((char_u *)(hl_group.data ? hl_group.data : ""));
+  int hlg_id = 0;
+  if (hl_group.size > 0) {
+    hlg_id = syn_check_group((char_u *)hl_group.data, (int)hl_group.size);
+  }
+
   src_id = bufhl_add_hl(buf, (int)src_id, hlg_id, (linenr_T)line+1,
                         (colnr_T)col_start+1, (colnr_T)col_end);
   return src_id;
-- 
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