Subject: bug#42417: Shell-script mode $() vs `` innards colors

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2020 11:36:15 +0200

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]> writes:

> $ cat e.sh
> x=`date +%Y`
> x=$(date +%Y)
> Shouldn't their colors look the same?

They should, and I've fixed it so your test case works better in Emacs
28.  However, this is done with regexps, so it's impossible to get it to
work completely correctly in the presence of nested expressions.

But it's better than before, at least, so I'm closing this bug report.

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