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#3226
[sh-mode] here-document syntax inference and completion is broken
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Reported by: Paul Nienaber <phox <at> phox.ca>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 22:20:05 UTC
Severity: minor
Tags: fixed
Merged with 19929,
43917
Found in version 24.4
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 #53 received at 3226 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Ah yeah totally fair.
Definitely do cover '<<-' as well (=> '<<-EOF\n\nEOF') for the strip-leading-tabs here-doc behaviour :)
Thanks again.
~Paul
> On Oct 15, 2019, at 18:40, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:
>
> Paul Nienaber <phox <at> phox.ca> writes:
>
>> While I use here-strings more than here-docs by a huge margin I would
>> also like to not negatively impact people using the former a lot, so
>> in light of that I'd like to suggest going with Stefan's suggestion,
>> importantly because it's also totally valid to trip on '<<-' and
>> '<<[A-Za-z]', whereas here-strings are always only '<<<'. Also
>> '<<EOF' is the overwhelmingly more common form that I see vs '<< EOF'.
>
> The additional wrinkle here is that sh-mode will insert the
> sh-here-document-word when expanding.
>
> So if the user types <<X, what should that be expanded to? Just
> appending EOF would be bad, and replacing the X with EOF would be bad,
> and expanding to
>
> foo <<X
>
> X
>
> would be bad, and prompting for what to expand to would be pretty
> pointless, too.
>
> I guess is "X" is "E", then expanding to
>
> foo <<EOF
>
> EOF
>
> would be nice, though. I think I'll add that.
>
> But I didn't see any way to make the <<[^<] thing work in any intuitive
> way. If anybody has an idea here, I'm all ears.
>
> --
> (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
> bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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