Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH] contrib/vim: highlight inherit_defer and include_all

Hi,

On Thu Apr 23, 2026 at 5:13 PM CEST, Trevor Woerner via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> The vim syntax file's "Includes and requires" rule only matched
> inherit, include and require. BitBake also accepts the inherit_defer
> and include_all directives, so they should be highlighted the same
> way.
>
> Add both keywords to bbInclude and to the bbIncludeLine match
> pattern. Longer keywords are listed first in the alternation so the
> regex does not match the shorter prefix (e.g. inherit_defer must win
> over inherit).

Why do we maintain a syntax file here since it's already part of upstream vim [1]?

[1]: https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/syntax/bitbake.vim

Antonin