Subject: bug#31710: 26.1; sh-mode doesn't highlight aliases with dots correctly

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 00:00:27 +0200

On Jul 13 2019, Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>>> -    (bash . "\\<\\([[:alnum:]_]+\\)\\(\\[.+\\]\\)?\\+?=")
>>> +    (bash . "\\<\\([[:alnum:]_]+\\)\\([.+]\\)?\\+?=")
>>
>> That doesn't make sense.  A dot or a plus isn't a valid character in a
>> shell variable.
>
> No, but this is the assignment regexp:

Yes, that's why it doesn't make sense.

> I'm guessing .= has the same meaning in some other shell dialect...

.= has no meaning.

Andreas.

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