GNU bug report logs - #21477
24.4; Imenu - improper parse of shell function names

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Matthew Persico <mpersico5 <at> bloomberg.net>

Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:29:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 52319, 52928, 54265, 56003, 57255, 58554

Found in version 24.4

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>,  "Matthew Persico (BLOOMBERG/ 919 3RD A)" <mpersico5 <at> bloomberg.net>
Cc: 21477 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21477: 24.4; Imenu - improper parse of shell function names
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 08:59:53 -0700

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> 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
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