Bug#430372: vim-runtime: syntax error in verilog.vim

[James Vega]

tag 430372 confirmed upstream
thanks

On 6/23/07, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer <ptdeboer at cs.utwente.nl> wrote:
> When starting vim on a file whose name ends in .v (a file containing
> Verilog code), the following error message appears:

This is happening because the verilog ftplugin script expects Vim to
understand line-continuations.  This is usually the case except when Vim
is run in vi-compatible mode or the C flag has specifically been added
to the 'cpoptions' option.

I'll make a patch for the ftplugin so that it locally removes the C flag
while running, apply it to the package in unstable and forward it
upstream.  This isn't a big enough problem to warrant an update for the
Etch package.

On a Debian system, you shouldn't run into this problem unless you're
explicitly running Vim in vi-compatible mode (by ":set compatible"/":set
cp") or are using the vim.tiny binary (either because vim-tiny is the
only Vim variant installed or because you configured the alternatives to
use it) and invoking it as vi.  Either way, adding ":set cpoptions-=C"
in your ~/.vimrc will work around the syntax script.

James