Bug 358201 – vim complains about errors (invalid characters) in c.vim, gobject-introspection.vim and json-glib.vim after update to app-vim/gtk-syntax-20110214

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andrei 2011-03-10 12:01:18 UTC]

After update to app-vim/gtk-syntax-20110214 I have an error message from the vim during every *.cxx or *.h file opening:

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"foo.cxx" [New File]
Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/syntax/c.vim:
line   16:
E18: Unexpected characters in :let
Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/syntax/gobject-introspection.vim:
line    8:
W18: Invalid character in group name
line    9:
W18: Invalid character in group name
line   10:
W18: Invalid character in group name
line   11:
W18: Invalid character in group name
line   12:
W18: Invalid character in group name
line   13:
W18: Invalid character in group name
line   14:
W18: Invalid character in group name
line   15:
W18: Invalid character in group name
Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/syntax/json-glib.vim:
line   14:
W18: Invalid character in group name
line   15:
W18: Invalid character in group name
line   16:
W18: Invalid character in group name
line   17:
W18: Invalid character in group name
line   18:
W18: Invalid character in group name
line   19:
W18: Invalid character in group name
line   20:
W18: Invalid character in group name
line   21:
W18: Invalid character in group name
Press ENTER or type command to continue
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[Comment 1 Tim Harder 2011-03-10 22:05:58 UTC]

I see, it doesn't like hyphens in the names. I'll get a new tarball out today to fix the issue.

[Comment 2 Tim Harder 2011-03-10 22:41:02 UTC]

Fixed in CVS now. It may take a bit for the new tarball to sync to the mirrors.