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sh-script package has incorrect syntax highlighting when shell type is set to rpm

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Message #14 received at 28286 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Andrew Toskin <andrew.toskin <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 28286 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28286: sh-script package has incorrect syntax highlighting
 when shell type is set to rpm
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2021 16:48:54 +0200

Andrew Toskin <andrew.toskin <at> gmail.com> writes:

> * Find an RPM spec file, such as this one for the RPM package of Emacs:
>     - https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/emacs/raw/master/f/emacs.spec
> * Open it in Emacs without user customizations (emacs --quick emacs.spec)
> * If necessary, set the shell type (C-c :) to rpm 
> * Notice that even in the %description block starting on line 104, apostrophes (')
> are highlighted as if they begin a quoted string.
>
> %description blocks only contain plain text descriptions of the RPM package, and
> last until the following %macro; there should be no syntax highlighting between
> the two macros. Or if there were, everything inside the description should all be
> the same color, until the next %macro starts.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got no response at
the time.)

That URL is no longer valid -- does anybody have a .spec file that
demonstrates the problem?

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