Re: Shell Syntax Highlighting - Group bashAdminStatement

Thank you for the answer.

The words "daemon", "reload", "restart", "start", "status", and "stop" are
neither bash keywords nor external commands.
Maybe they were implemented for init scripts, but these are hardly used
anymore today.

The words "killall", "killproc", and "nice" are external commands which is
ok I guess.
But I can't really see a pattern why some external programs are
highlighted and others are not.
They were probably selected on how frequently they are used in bash
scripts.

For example if you type "systemctl start foo", then "start" is
highlighted, but "systemctl" is not.
Or for "systemctl daemon-reload" nothing will be highlighted.

For external commands you could choose only coreutils or don't highlight
external commands at all.

On Tue Sep 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM CEST, Christian Brabandt wrote:
>
> 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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