Subject: bug#77746: [PATCH] sh-mode: Fix incorrect word syntax for punctuation in sh-mode

From: James Cherti <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2025 20:50:30 -0400

Hello Eli,

Stefan confirmed that, based on experimentation with `/`, he
believes the patch should be safe enough.

I wanted to kindly follow up on the status of the patch
merge.

Thank you.

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James Cherti
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On 2025-04-28 13:41, Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the 
Swiss army knife of text editors wrote:
>> commit f6277911eb2c520aec8f0efd80c91999226e3322
>> Author: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
>> Date:   2020-10-02 07:11:56 +0200
>>      Make xref work better on variables in shell-script-mode
>>      * lisp/progmodes/sh-script.el (sh-mode-syntax-table): Classify "/"
>>      as punctuation so that `M-.' on $foo/bar works on the $foo part
>>      (bug#25585).
>>
>> The above patch was accepted.
>>
>> @Stefan @Juri: Have you been able to perform any checks that
>> would allow this patch to be merged?
> 
> Yeah, based on my experimentation with `/`, I'm now thinking it might be
> safe enough to give punctuation syntax to those other characters.
> 
> Any remaining objection to pushing this to `master`?
> 
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>          Stefan
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