Re: vim syntax highlight plugin for gawk

[Peng Yu]

Thanks. I just connected with Antonio Colombo.

On 3/25/20, Andrew J. Schorr <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 04:38:40PM -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
>> The default vim highlight for awk is not always correct. For example,
>> I don't see "case" highlighted. Is there an official vim syntax
>> highlight plugin recommended for gawk? Thanks.
>
> On my platform, the awk syntax file in /usr/share/vim/vim82/syntax/awk.vim
> says at the top:
>
> " Vim syntax file
> " Language:     awk, nawk, gawk, mawk
> " Maintainer:   Antonio Colombo <address@hidden>
> " Last Change:  2016 Sep 05
>
> " AWK  ref. is: Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, Peter J. Weinberger
> " The AWK Programming Language, Addison-Wesley, 1988
>
> " GAWK ref. is: Arnold D. Robbins
> " Effective AWK Programming, Third Edition, O'Reilly, 2001
> " Effective AWK Programming, Fourth Edition, O'Reilly, 2015
> " (also available and updated with the gawk source distribution)
>
> " MAWK is a "new awk" meaning it implements AWK ref.
> " mawk conforms to the Posix 1003.2 (draft 11.3)
> " definition of the AWK language which contains a few features
> " not described in the AWK book, and mawk provides a small number of
> extensions.
> ...
>
> So it clearly intends to support gawk, at least to some extent.
> And it does include some gawk-specific features. For example:
>
> " GAWK ref. Chapter 7-9
> syn keyword awkStatement        switch nextfile
> syn keyword awkStatement        func
> "
> " GAWK ref. Chapter 9, Functions
> " Numeric Functions
> syn keyword awkFunction atan2 cos exp int intdiv log rand sin sqrt srand
> " String Manipulation Functions
> syn keyword awkFunction asort asort1 gensub gsub index length match
> syn keyword awkFunction patsplit split sprintf strtonum sub substr
>
> The quick and dirty hack is to patch the file to add missing statements such
> as
> case. For example, just add:
>
> syn keyword awkStatement        case
>
> For a better solution, you should perhaps contact the maintainer
> Antonio Colombo <address@hidden>. He also seems to have a typo
> where he's got "asort1" instead of "asorti".
>
> Regards,
> Andy
>


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Regards,
Peng