Package: vim-nox
Version: 2:7.2.245-2
Severity: wishlist
I'm aware that the issue of Vim's shell-script syntax-highlighting
defaults have been a hot issue on the vim-dev mailing-list, spawning
long and involved threads such as these:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.vim.devel/19923
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.vim.devel/19018/focus=19038
In Debian bug 361177, sh.vim learned a g:is_posix configuration value,
and the current sh.vim documentation states:
If there's no "#! ..." line, and the user hasn't availed
himself/herself of a default sh.vim syntax setting as just shown,
then syntax/sh.vim will assume the Bourne shell syntax. No need to
quote RFCs or market penetration statistics in error reports, please
-- just select the default version of the sh your system uses in
your <.vimrc>.
Reading through the threads above, it seems one of the major reasons
contributing to upstream defaulting to classic Bourne syntax is that
many people use Vim on systems with a classic Bourne /bin/sh for legacy
reasons. This seems quite reasonable, however Debian is not such
a system. I could "just select the default version of sh my system uses
in my .vimrc", but since every Debian user has a POSIX /bin/sh, it makes
sense that the Debian vim package should be configured appropriately
out-of-the-box.
Adding this to $VIMRUNTIME/debian.vim along with the other
Debian-integration customizations should do the trick nicely:
let g:is_posix = 1
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages vim-nox depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.48-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgpm2 1.20.4-3.2 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii libncurses5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libperl5.10 5.10.1-5 Shared Perl library
ii libruby1.8 1.8.7.174-2 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ii libselinux1 2.0.85-4 SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii python2.5 2.5.4-2 An interactive high-level object-o
ii tcl8.4 8.4.19-4 Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8
ii vim-common 2:7.2.245-2 Vi IMproved - Common files
ii vim-runtime 2:7.2.245-2 Vi IMproved - Runtime files
vim-nox recommends no packages.
Versions of packages vim-nox suggests:
pn cscope <none> (no description available)
pn vim-doc <none> (no description available)
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