On 2012-01-17, Linda W wrote: > I found a bug in the perl.vim file recently where the author didn't know the > exact stuff I was complaining about being hard to learn -- all the RE > exceptions. > > I knew the same bug was in Javascript syntax (.. I scanned the other vim > files for the same pattern. > > 64 of the files in the syntax dir have the same problem pattern (over > 1/10th) > of vim authors don't know or remember it's syntax, despite having enough > expertise to write syntax plugins.
I was surprised at that figure, so I took a look myself. I found 34 files in $VIMRUNTIME/syntax with that problem! I'd be willing to fix at least some of them except that almost all of them are for languages that I never use and know nothing about, so I don't think I'd do a very good job of testing my changes. Is this worth fixing wholesale? If so, is the first step to just send a note to all the authors? Regards, Gary -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
