Re: (Obscure) problem with bash syntax highlighting

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ok, though isn't it more important to prune unnecessary content?
:-|



On 2019/05/21 13:17, 'J S' via vim_use wrote:
> But is also allows the offset (and then length, too, but ignore that
> for now) to be negative. But, alas, as noted in "man bash", if the
> offset is negative, you have to
> put a space after the :, in order to avoid ambiguity with the usual
> ${var:-xxx} construct. So, you have to write:
>
> $ echo ${var: -9:5}
>
> Alas, vim flags this as an error. If I take out the space before the
> -, the highlighting is OK. But with the space, it is flagged as error.
>
> Can this be fixed?
Not that it fixes the syntax, but I've always used "${var:0-9:5}" so the
field
would clearly stand out as starting with an integer and not the ambiguous
'dash'. Is that flagged as an error too?

Just curious....

-l

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