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gauthma

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Registered: 2010-02-16

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Vim, Perl and syntax highlight

Hello all,

Suppose you have a little snippet of Perl code like such:

sub foo # some comment with keywords for die and or not
{
  print "In sub foo!\n";
}

The comment in the sub line is not treated (i.e. highlighted) as a comment. Rather, it is highlighted as regular source code. Seems like a bug, but before reporting it to the maintainer, I wanted to see if anyone else shared the same issue.

To clarify: this refers only to highlight in vim, running the code works as expected. And I took care to see if this could be the results of my settings: the problem seems in fact, to be with the perl.vim file (in my system: /usr/share/vim/vim73/syntax/perl.vim).

So, can anyone reproduce this behaviour?

frabjous

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Registered: 2010-07-13

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Re: Vim, Perl and syntax highlight

Yes, same for me. (I don't write perl, so I don't have anything special installed for it other than the default /usr/share/vim73/syntax/perl.vim.)

Last edited by frabjous (2010-10-01 21:50:00)

karol

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Re: Vim, Perl and syntax highlight

Is it a valid comment in perl?

gauthma

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Re: Vim, Perl and syntax highlight

Is it a valid comment in perl?

I've done it countless times, and never got any warnings or errors because of it, so I assume it is valid.

gauthma

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Re: Vim, Perl and syntax highlight

Yes, same for me. (I don't write perl, so I don't have anything special installed for it other than the default /usr/share/vim73/syntax/perl.vim.)

Hum, ok. I'll report it to the maintainer then.