OK, restart, I think I now see a pattern in this. I completely
removed and re-installed vile from the Ubuntu repositories on esprimo
and it is now working correctly there. I had modified it there
because of the issue a while ago with UTF8 characters. So the table
is now as follows:-
backup xubuntu 22.10 vile 9.8w colour OK, but not right
bison Android 11 vile 9.8w colour OK, but not right
caracal Debian 10 vile 9.8 no colour syntax
cheddar Debian 10 vile 9.8t colour OK
esprimo xubuntu 22.04 vile 9.8v colour OK
isbd Ubuntu 20.04 vile 9.8t colour OK
odin Debian 9 vile 9.8s colour OK
pimedia Debian 11 vile 9.8u colour OK
t470 xubuntu 22.10 vile 9.8w colour OK, but not right
tsohost very old vile 9.8 no colour syntax
This makes *much* more sense! :-) The systems with versions older
than vile9.8w do syntax highlighting OK. The two systems where I
built vile myself and installed as a user (no root access) don't do
syntax highlighting but thati's almost certainly something I have
missed out in the build and it's not so important there anyway.
So, the question is why the syntax highlighting of vilemode for
version 9.8w is messed up. It's not badly wrong, it gets the colour
of comments right throughout but gets confused about keyword colours
and within some 'map' settings. As far as I can see on other file
types (shell scripts, python, C) version 9.8w gets the highlighting
correct so it does look like just an error in the vilemode
highlighting.
Has the vile-filt-filt file changed between 9.8v and 9.8w?
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Chris Green
