fvwm vim problem

[Ken Arromdee]

I am running vim 7.2. When I try to edit a .fvwm2rc, I get syntax errors in
fvwm.vim. It seems that this is not updated for vim 7.2.

I found a message by Googling which referred to an updated file for vim
7, at http://www.mail-archive.com/fv...@lists.math.uh.edu/msg16116.html --
unfortunately that *is* the same file I have and it still doesn't work,
which means further changes were made between vim 7.0 and 7.2. How
can I get a good fvwm.vim or fix the one I have?

[Bram Moolenaar]

Ken Arromdee wrote:

If you list the errors we might be able to help you better.

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[Thomas Adam]

On 28 November 2010 04:09, Ken Arromdee <arro...@rahul.net> wrote:
> I am running vim 7.2.  When I try to edit a .fvwm2rc, I get syntax errors in
> fvwm.vim.  It seems that this is not updated for vim 7.2.
>
> I found a message by Googling which referred to an updated file for vim
> 7, at http://www.mail-archive.com/fv...@lists.math.uh.edu/msg16116.html --

That's old.

I've not got any problems here using the file fvwm.vim at all --
what's your filetype set to? ISTR if it's not "fvwm", then you might
run into problems, but until I can see what errors you're getting, I
wouldn't want to speculate.

-- Thomas Adam

[Ken Arromdee]

On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Thomas Adam wrote:
>> I am running vim 7.2. �When I try to edit a .fvwm2rc, I get syntax errors in
>> fvwm.vim. �It seems that this is not updated for vim 7.2.
>>
>> I found a message by Googling which referred to an updated file for vim
>> 7, at http://www.mail-archive.com/fv...@lists.math.uh.edu/msg16116.html --
> That's old.
>
> I've not got any problems here using the file fvwm.vim at all --
> what's your filetype set to? ISTR if it's not "fvwm", then you might
> run into problems, but until I can see what errors you're getting, I
> wouldn't want to speculate.

I'm running a newly installed Mandriva Linux 2010.1. It has a vim that
claims to be version 7.2.284.

The file is ".fvwm2rc", which according to the vim documentation is already
recognized--you only need to set the filetype for files other than .fvwmrc
and .fvwm2rc.

These are the errors I get:

Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/syntax/fvwm.vim:
line 29:
E399: Not enough arguments: syntax region fvwmModArg^I^Icontained contains=fvwmS
tring,fvwmRGBValue
line 32:
E399: Not enough arguments: syntax region fvwmString^I^Icontains=fvwmBackslash s
tart='"'
line 33:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 34:
E399: Not enough arguments: syntax region fvwmString^I^Icontains=fvwmBackslash s
tart='`'
line 35:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 36:
E399: Not enough arguments: syntax region fvwmString^I^Icontains=fvwmBackslash s
tart="'"
line 37:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 46:
E399: Not enough arguments: syntax region fvwmComment^I^Icontains=@Spell
line 47:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 51:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &
line 69:
E10: \ should be followed by /, ? or &

Followed by a whole lot more repeats of the same error with different line
numbers.

The fvwm.vim file contains this at line 29:

syn region fvwmModArg contained contains=fvwmString,fvwmRGBValue
\ start='.' skip='\\$' end='$'

syn region fvwmString contains=fvwmBackslash start='"'
\ matchgroup=fvwmBackslash skip='\v\\"' end='"'
syn region fvwmString contains=fvwmBackslash start='`'
\ matchgroup=fvwmBackslash skip='\v\\`' end='`'
syn region fvwmString contains=fvwmBackslash start="'"
\ matchgroup=fvwmBackslash skip="\v\\'" end="'"
syn match fvwmBackslash contained '\\[^"'`]'

[bill lam]

Вск, 28 Ноя 2010, Ken Arromdee писал(а):

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It seemd line continuation did not work. May be related to compatibe mode.
Try checking the cp and cpo. (untested)

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[Ken Arromdee]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, bill lam wrote:
> It seemd line continuation did not work. May be related to compatibe mode.
> Try checking the cp and cpo. (untested)

Thanks, unsetting compatible did fix it, though I have no idea which of the
many compatible settings it was.