Did not get an answer and think the message is too far down in the mailing list, so replying to get it up.
In case the original mail was too convoluted, I could rephrase the main question into "Is different coloring of quote characters on the lhs and rhs of an equal sign inside of an if block intentional?" (see picture I attached before for example) четверг, 28 мая 2026 г. в 07:15:44 UTC+3, Kirill Dergachev: > Hello, > > My initial issue was weird highlighting of double quotes inside of if > blocks (probably applies to for, do, etc). > For example in > > if [ "$1" = "$2" ]; then > test "$1" = "$2" > "$1" = "$2" > fi > > each occurrence of "$1" = "$2" colors whole rhs of equal sign as string > (including quotes). Then while looking for why it does that and how I could > fix it came across shTestDoubleQuote and shTestSingleQuote. Pretty sure > they are the reason this happens. (despite the name they do not apply to > test command outside of an if block) > > Is that intentional or not? > If it is not, adding matchgroup=shQuote to shTestDoubleQuote fixes the > exact problem I stated, but it is a bit more complicated for single quotes: > I guess they'll have to be changed from a match to a region like double > quotes. > > Also I don't really understand what is the reason behind separating > sh___Quote and shTest___Quote groups, can't non-test ones be used instead? > > Another small note: shTestSingleQuote also contains a '\\.' group. What > bash syntax does that cover? > > Visual demonstration of issues above: > [image: Screenshot from 2026-05-28 00-10-07.png] > > (vim version 9.1, mentioned syntax groups are same on my machine and in > the newest commit on master) > > Thanks, > Kirill > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/04193508-cff4-47a3-bb9d-7a2bfe6fcaf8n%40googlegroups.com.
