Re: Shell Syntax Highlighting - Group bashAdminStatement

On Di, 16 Sep 2025, 'Björn Försterling' via vim_use wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am wondering about the syntax group "bashAdminStatement" in "runtime/syntax/sh.vim".
> The syntax highlighting for these words seems unfitting.
>
> syn keyword bashAdminStatement daemon killall killproc nice reload restart start status stop
>
> Maybe these were designed for init scripts or systemd commands.
> Of course I can disable this syntax group in my own syntax files.
>
> But does someone know why these were implemented?

So is the problem, that those are not really bash specific builtins but
rather external commands? I suppose the same is true for bashStatement
then.

Thanks,
Christian
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