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shell-mode: fails to recognize .bashrc files as shell scripts

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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17991: shell-mode: fails to recognize .bashrc files as shell
 scripts
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 01:19:40 -0600

On 7/10/14 1:17 PM, Andrew Pennebaker wrote:
> Yes, same on my machine.
>
> I think this problem is specific to alternative config files (I've got a
> ".bashrc" for primary computer, ".bashrc-cygwin" for Windows, ".bashrc-android"
> for Android, and so on.
>
> Could the default auto-mode-alist entry be tweaked to include any file with
> ".bashrc" as a prefix?

Why not just add a major mode cookie (comment) at the top of your
non-standardly-named files?

# -*- mode: sh; -*-

> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org <mailto:rgm <at> gnu.org>>
> wrote:
>
>     Andrew Pennebaker wrote:
>
>      > Would be helpful if shell-mode understood that .bashrc*, .profile*, etc.
>      > are shell scripts. Right now, they are treated as fundamental.
>
>     Works for me.
>
>     emacs-24.3 -Q .profile    -> shell-script
>     emacs-24.3 -Q .bashrc     -> shell-script
>
>     C-h v auto-mode-alist
>       ("\\.[ck]?sh\\'\\|\\.shar\\'\\|/\\.z?profile\\'" . sh-mode)
>       ("\\(/\\|\\`\\)\\.\\(bash_profile\\|z?login\\|bash_login\\|z?logout\\)\\'"
>       . sh-mode)
>       ("\\(/\\|\\`\\)\\.\\(bash_logout\\|shrc\\|[kz]shrc\\|bashrc\\|t?cshrc\\|esrc\\)\\'"
>       . sh-mode)
>
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew Pennebaker
> www.yellosoft.us <http://www.yellosoft.us>


-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

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