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26.1; sh-mode doesn't highlight aliases with dots correctly

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 31710 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Aria Edm <aria <at> ar1as.space>
Subject: bug#31710: 26.1; sh-mode doesn't highlight aliases with dots correctly
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 17:37:19 +0200

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

larsi <at> marnie:~$ a=4
larsi <at> marnie:~$ a+=6
larsi <at> marnie:~$ echo $a
46

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

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