[Bug 517019] Re: vim crontab syntax highlighting should treat day/month names case insensitively

[Artur Rona]

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vim crontab syntax highlighting should treat day/month names case insensitively
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Status in “vim” package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed
Status in “vim” package in Debian: Fix Released

Bug description:
Binary package hint: vim

vim's syntax highlighting for crontabs breaks if a day or month name is specified with a capital letter, e.g:

* *  *  *  Mon-Fri  mycommand

However, cron seems to treat these values as case-insensitive. The attached patch fixes this by adding "syntax case ignore" before the syntax.

Conversely, the @foo special time specifiers (e.g. "@reboot", "@hourly") ARE case-sensitive. The patch also defines the syntax so that the incorrect case is displayed as an error, with the correct case displayed as before.