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24.3.50; Escaped parentheses break sh-mode indentation

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Josh <josh <at> foxtail.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3.50; Escaped parentheses break sh-mode indentation
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:08:47 -0700

Steps to reproduce:

1) put the following text into file `foo' and visit it:
#!/bin/bash

find . \( -name foo -prune \) -o \( -type f -name 'bar*' \) -print0 |
xargs -0 somecmd
echo why is this line indented???
2) C-x h C-M-\
3) Expected behavior: buffer contents would be unchanged
4) Actual behavior: buffer was modified as follows:
#!/bin/bash

find . \( -name foo -prune \) -o \( -type f -name 'bar*' \) -print0 |
xargs -0 somecmd
        echo why is this line indented???


In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1187.34)
 of 2013-03-04 on bix
Bzr revision: 111935 yamaoka <at> jpl.org-20130304102733-4qy111z41qwoh2as
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1187
Configured using:
 `configure --host=x86_64-apple-darwin --build=i686-apple-darwin
 --with-ns'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t
[...]

Message #8 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Christopher Schmidt <christopher <at> ch.ristopher.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14075: 24.3.50; Escaped parentheses break sh-mode indentation
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:39:19 +0000 (GMT)

I think this is a duplicate of #13161.

        Christopher

Message #11 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Josh <josh <at> foxtail.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: 14075-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14075: 24.3.50; Escaped parentheses break sh-mode indentation
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:21:17 -0700

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Christopher Schmidt
<christopher <at> ch.ristopher.com> wrote:
> I think this is a duplicate of #13161.
>
>         Christopher

Yes, I somehow missed that and Emacs does correctly indent the script
when I employ Stefan's suggested workaround, i.e. `` find . "(" -name
foo -prune ")" -o "(" -type f -name 'bar*' ")" -print0 | xargs -0
somecmd '' so I'll go ahead and close this.

Stefan, can you explain why this won't be fixed anytime soon?  I've
been using \( ... \) in find invocations for a million years, give or
take, and I expect it will take not a little effort to habituate
myself to quoting parentheses this way.

Message #19 received at 14075 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Josh <josh <at> foxtail.org>
Cc: 14075 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14075: 24.3.50; Escaped parentheses break sh-mode indentation
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:32:59 -0400

> Stefan, can you explain why this won't be fixed anytime soon?

Last time I looked it seemed to require more work than I time for it.


        Stefan

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