On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, James Vega wrote: > No one *needs* to do anything. If you want to make sure it gets fixed > to your satisfaction, send a patch and I'll gladly forward it upstream > to Bram for his consideration. > Bram hasn't expressed any interest in fixing syntax highlighting of what > he considers a bug in GCC so I doubt you'll get him to implement the > feature (yes, feature not bug fix since it's a GCC extension).
OK, fair enough, you don't *need* to do anything. My poorly worded point was that in my interpretation, closing this bug is at odds with what I know about the Debian BTS. Let me quote: " There's no doubt this is a bug in vim; vim doesn't get to decide if an extension to gcc is actually a bug. Why Bram would think that totally escapes me, but in any case his personal preferences don't determine what's a bug in gcc. He just determines what he wants to fix in vim. So if you are not willing to fix this for whatever reason (because it won't be accepted upstream, or because you don't know how to, or because it would break something else, or whatever), that's your responsibility and your prerrogative, and that's fine. But don't "close" the bug (which means the bug isn't there anymore). Mark it as wontfix with an explanation, or whatever else you do these days. For sure, disabling the functionality where the bug is expressed is no workaround, and cannot be used as a reason to close. I guarantee you that if I knew how to do this I'd do it myself, as I've done many times in the past in various packages. But having skimmed through the c.vim file, I don't think I have the time or incentive to fix this particular one. I was just hoping that the people that already know how to do it would do it, or at least give a reasonable explanation as to why it wouldn't be fixed. Regards, -- Álvaro Martínez Echevarría ``Pero yo que he sentido una vez en mis manos temblar la alegría / ya no podré morir nunca. / Pero yo que he tocado una vez las agudas agujas del pino / ya no podré morir nunca''. [José Hierro, "El muerto"]
