Package: vim-common Version: 1:6.4-007+1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream See Debian bugs #319825 and #358382.
I would like to be able to write, for example, a Debian maintainer script, and I would like to use #! /bin/sh to allow people to use whatever shell they want, rather than adding an additional dependency on some specific shell. Anything installed as /bin/sh is guaranteed to support all the posix stuff (whether this is an old posix or new SUS isn't defined); (it is also guaranteed to support echo -n). bash is Essential: yes, so I could write everything with #!/bin/bash, but some find bash to be slow, big, or want to be able to share code to systems that don't have bash (but where /bin/sh is posix). So I would like to write a posix shell script, using #!/bin/sh. vim doesn't presently support this well; I either have to allow all syntax allowed by some specific shell like bash, including some stuff which will break with a strict posix shell, or I have to use #! /bin/sh, and deal with vim marking lots of stuff as invalid which is perfectly valid in this context. I would like some way of setting a posix mode, allowing precisely what is defined by (some) posix standard. I would also like for this to either be enabled by default (at least on Debian), at compiletime, in /etc/vim/vimrc, or perhaps a comment in the global vimrc to make it trivial to enable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
