Hello devoted TU, Yesterday I upgraded my archlinux. Among the updated packages were gvim and vim-runtime. I then noticed that there is a mess in the syntax highlighting of the bash scripts. I reinstalled the previous versions (9.0.1182-1) of gvim and vim-runtime, and everything was back to normal. Suspecting the sh.vim or bash.vim coloring files, I copied them to ~/.vim/syntax and updated gvim and vim-runtime again (from 9.0.1182-1 to 9.0.1302-1) and everything works fine. I do not ask for help, since I have solved my problem. I'm sorry, maybe this is not the right place to report what I think is a bug. Sincerely yours P.S. I have been using archlinux for a few years and I am very happy with it. I would like to make a donation with my credit card from time to time. Is 'click & pledge' the right place to help archlinux modestly? -- Mourad Arnout 25 rue de la Vieille Pierre 79800 Exoudun http://arad.free.fr