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29.0.50; Support mksh-specific function names in imenu

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 14:37:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 29.0.50

Fixed in version 29.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 29.0.50; Support mksh-specific function names in imenu
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 20:06:21 +0530

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Tags: patch

mksh supports characters well beyond [:alnum:_] in its function names.
More specifically, syn.c:function_body says the following

	/*-
	 * Check for valid characters in name. POSIX and AT&T ksh93 say
	 * only allow [a-zA-Z_0-9] but this allows more as old pdkshs
	 * have allowed more; the following were never allowed:
	 *	NUL TAB NL SP " $ & ' ( ) ; < = > \ ` |
	 * C_QUOTE|C_SPC covers all but adds # * ? [ ]
	 */

However, it seems like executing a function with a forward-slash (/)
character in it is impossible as well.

Attached patch adds a mksh-specific entry to sh-imenu-generic-expression
to do that.


[0001-Support-mksh-specific-function-names-in-imenu.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]
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