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#1 2010-05-16 22:18:23
- Sadface
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"Working" Bash highlight for VIM?
I wonder, has anyone found a "real" bash/zsh/sh/<insert bash compatible shell here> highlighting?
Mine's behaving weird. Absolutely correct stuff like "$(cat file.txt)" ist highlighted as an error, at least the "$(" and ")" parts are white on red background - which is annoying.
Also parameter expansion "${FILE//thumb/full}" - the whole "//thumb/full" part is again white on red background, error - but it's completely legal and correct to do so.
It is really disturbing having all these useless red spots inside my file - it's distracting.
What can I do?
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#2 2010-05-16 22:20:32
- rson451
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Re: "Working" Bash highlight for VIM?
What is your shebang? If you are using /bin/sh and not /bin/bash, you will get errors for bash syntax as it tests for sh syntax. $(..) is not valid sh syntax.
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#3 2010-05-16 22:22:27
- Trent
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Re: "Working" Bash highlight for VIM?
Not according to the people over at http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=97103. But I'm still willing to be proven right! 
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#4 2010-05-16 22:29:04
- Sadface
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Re: "Working" Bash highlight for VIM?
Actually, my shebang reads "#!/bin/zsh" 
Putting /bin/bash in there, the highlighting is gone, but how could I make it work with my beloved ZSH?
If I need to hack around it, by god, I will!
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#5 2010-05-16 22:52:17
- Ogion
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Re: "Working" Bash highlight for VIM?
Afaik the red marked $() is not "error" but just sort of "command substitution block", to make you see where it starts and stops.
Dunno, that's just how i interpreted it, could be wrong.
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#6 2010-05-16 23:10:23
- Daenyth
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Re: "Working" Bash highlight for VIM?
The red markers are errors because $() is not bourne-compatible.
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#7 2010-05-16 23:12:21
- Ogion
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Re: "Working" Bash highlight for VIM?
Oh alright. (Hm i just saw that vim automatically uses sh-syntax even though a script has the zsh-shebang line; when i manually tell it to use zsh-syntax the red marking disappears..)
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