GNU bug report logs - #31710
26.1; sh-mode doesn't highlight aliases with dots correctly

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Aria Edm <aria <at> ar1as.space>

Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 12:15:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 26.1

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #21 received at 31710 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 31710 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Aria Edm <aria <at> ar1as.space>
Subject: Re: bug#31710: 26.1;
 sh-mode doesn't highlight aliases with dots correctly
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 00:00:27 +0200

On Jul 13 2019, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:

> 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:

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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