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syntax highlighting problem on emacs shell-script mode

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From: Yilkal Argaw <yilkalargawworkneh <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 52496 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>, Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#52496: syntax highlighting problem on emacs shell-script mode
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 07:20:47 +0300

Yes, I agree.  I think this is enough for now until a refactor becomes
necessary.

On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 12:46 PM Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:
>
> Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > So IIUC for here-documents anything is fair game except (1)
> > {single,double,back} quotes (2) metacharacters (3) backslashes and
> > comment openers (#); all of which can still be used if quoted or escaped
> > *on the opening line only*.
>
> Thanks.
>
> As far as I can see, sh-mode doesn't really try too hard to be correct
> here -- it accepts word constituents, but then adds back -/~._ which it
> has defined as punctuation in `sh-mode-syntax-table'.  So perhaps we
> should just continue doing that and add @, too, even though that's not
> very satisfactory.
>
> So I've now done that in Emacs 29.
>
> --
> (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
>    bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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