-- 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 ---- 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 -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/5CE8295A.80606%40tlinx.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.