[OpenIndiana-discuss] VIM 9: lost shell (read bash) syntax

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 20/02/2023 16:49, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
> On 20/02/2023 16:20, Predrag Zecevic via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> does anyone has nice .vimrc, which still obey syntax coloring? Especially for
>> bash...
>>
>> Recently, vim was upgrade from version 8 to 9:
>>
>> :; pkg list *editor/vim*
>> NAME (PUBLISHER) VERSION                    IFO
>> editor/vim 9.0.1300-2023.0.0.0        i--
>> editor/vim/vim-core 9.0.1300-2023.0.0.0        i--
>>
>> Since then, bash syntax coloring is not working with neither .vimrc (old one,
>> and modified one). Or w/o .vimrc.
>> Previously, that syntax highlighting could help a lot, when entering shell
>> commands to point to the syntax error.
>>
>> Now, it is completely useless...
>>
>> Any thoughts? Anyone still uses it?
>
> No problem here, with .vimrc
>
> set encoding=utf-8
> set term=xterm-color
> syntax enable
>
> everything highlights fine, even bash scripts.
>

You may also need this (one line) :
autocmd Syntax * exec("set dict+=".$VIMRUNTIME."/syntax/".expand('<amatch>').".vim")

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