Subject: bug#21477: 24.4; Imenu - improper parse of shell function names

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 08:59:53 -0700

Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> writes:

> It's a POSIX extension, enforced in POSIX mode:
>
>   13. Function names must be valid shell 'name's.  That is, they may not
>      contain characters other than letters, digits, and underscores, and
>      may not start with a digit.  Declaring a function with an invalid
>      name causes a fatal syntax error in non-interactive shells.

Right.  Well, then adding syntax highlighting here would in a way
encourage people to write non-POSIX conformant shell code, which even if
it happens to work in Bash sounds like a bad idea.

So I'm leaning towards closing this bug report as wontfix.

Any other opinions?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas