Bug#552108: vim-runtime: sh syntax highlighting should default to POSIX.

James Vega jamessan at debian.org
Mon Nov 2 00:48:01 UTC 2009


tag 552108 wontfix
thanks

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:27:31PM +1100, Timothy Allen wrote:
> In Debian bug 361177, sh.vim learned a g:is_posix configuration value,
> and the current sh.vim documentation states:
> 
>     If there's no "#! ..." line, and the user hasn't availed
>     himself/herself of a default sh.vim syntax setting as just shown,
>     then syntax/sh.vim will assume the Bourne shell syntax.  No need to
>     quote RFCs or market penetration statistics in error reports, please
>     -- just select the default version of the sh your system uses in
>     your <.vimrc>.
> 
> Reading through the threads above, it seems one of the major reasons
> contributing to upstream defaulting to classic Bourne syntax is that
> many people use Vim on systems with a classic Bourne /bin/sh for legacy
> reasons.

On the contrary, it's because what /bin/sh points to isn't standard.
Defaulting the behavior to Bourne syntax encourages people to specify
what they're actual target shell is.

> This seems quite reasonable, however Debian is not such
> a system. I could "just select the default version of sh my system uses
> in my .vimrc",

That should be "just select the version of sh my script is targetting".
Simply because you're authoring the script on Debian doesn't mean you're
targetting Debian's default /bin/sh.

I see no reason to differ from upstream in this.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan at debian.org>
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