Vim bash syntax wrong?

Question

Vim is wrongly highlighting the closing parenthesis in my shell scripting files.
In other words, it looks like the syntax is wrong (maybe it is).
A picture would illustrate better.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/56 … error.png/
I only have the default sh.vim that comes with gvim 7.3 default
package in arch. Nothing in ~/.vim/syntax or ~/.vim/after/syntax.
Could someone verify if the same happens in your systems. The system
is fully up to date.
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by FernandoBasso (2011-12-20 19:57:39)

Answer 1

Procyon wrote:
egan wrote:
I've noticed various syntax coloring errors in bash scripts lately.
One of the main ones is that the closing parenthesis of an array is highlighted red, e.g.:
SUBRANGE=(${RANGE[@]})
Another consistent problem is the coloring of file descriptors.
In my first function, the string >&2 is colored completely yellow, but in subsequent functions the same string has a magenta 2.
Furthermore, some string redirects are colored wrong, the final tac being off-colored, e.g.:
if $(grep -q "[^[:digit:]:-]" <<< "$1")
There are often errors in quote delimiting too, e.g. after the following line, the entire file is colored as if it is a string literal:
if $(amixer | grep -A 4 \'$SDEVICE\' | awk {'print $6'} | grep -q "\[off\]")
Also, process substitution looks funny in that the tic is a different color than the parentheses, though that's not specifically incorrect.
I guess the moral of the story is I should try to fix this.
These all work if you use a bash syntax file instead of sh.
I have
let g:is_bash=1
in my vimrc already.