GNU bug report logs - #17333
sh-mode: File local variables for setting shell variant

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Message #10 received at 17333 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Ben Finney <ben+gnu <at> benfinney.id.au>
Cc: 17333 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17333: sh-mode: File local variables for setting shell variant
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 10:21:23 -0400

Ben Finney wrote:

> The 'sh-mode' appears to have no means for allowing a non-executable
> file to declare, in its local variables, the shell variant to use for
> syntax.

I'd also like a way to do this.
In the past I've used

-*- mode: sh; eval: (sh-set-shell "tcsh" nil nil) -*-

but it is not great.

Ideas that come to mind are a bunch of aliases (sh-bash-mode etc) that
DTRT (yuck?); or sh-mode could add something to
hack-local-variables-hook that respects a file-local `sh-buffer-shell'
or somesuch.

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