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Auto-indenting csh/tcsh shell scripts [emacs-28]

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 43324 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#43324: Auto-indenting csh/tcsh shell scripts [emacs-28]
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2022 11:20:36 +0200

Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Here's a GIF recording (attached with this email) showing me opening a
> tcsh script in emacs -Q and attempting to auto-indent the whole buffer
> and also a region. Both mess up the whole indentation.
>
> Example script:

Thanks for the example.

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Does this mean that indentation doesn't work for tcsh in
>> shell-script-mode?
>
> IIRC sh-script.el provides usable indentation (based on SMIE) for `sh`
> and for `rc` but for `csh` there's basically nothing (or if there's
> something it's naive enough to be nearly unusable).

Ah, I see.

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