AW: IFS and colour themes in shell scripts

Hi Hans

First to clarify; I assume by "IFS commands" you mean setting the IFS
variable by an assignation, say, like:  IFS=, read var

I'm using that pattern a lot in all POSIX compatible shells (sh, ksh, bash).
But I cannot reproduce what you describe.

Are you observing that only for (literally) 'sh' files or also for other shell
that are handled by "sh.vim", like ksh, bash, etc.?

Concerning your question about "alternatives to IFS"; that depends on
what you intend to do. I suggest to provide examples and discuss that
in Usenet (comp.unix.shell). As a short general answer; IFS is a central
parameter in the Unix shell to control the field-splitting, so it's hard to
replace its use or to work around that where you want to control field
splitting.

Janis

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Von: 'Krupakar Hans' via vim_dev <[email protected]>
Gesendet: Sonntag, 16. August 2026 07:50
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: IFS and colour themes in shell scripts

This is also true for the read command.

Thanks,
Hans K

On Sun, Aug 16, 2026 at 4:35 AM Krupakar Hans <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
To whom it may concern,

The use of the IFS command in .sh files removes colour templates in the text over the commands and makes all of them strings from the next line. This makes writing them harder without commenting the IFS command before I can start to debug. Are there alternatives to IFS?

In contrast, github doesn't show the same theme pattern with IFS commands.

Thanks,
Hans K

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