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[PATCH] sh-mode: Fix incorrect word syntax for punctuation in sh-mode

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: James Cherti <contact <at> jamescherti.com>
Cc: 77746 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: bug#77746: [PATCH] sh-mode: Fix incorrect word syntax for punctuation in sh-mode
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:17:21 +0300

> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:39:24 -0400
> Cc: 77746 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: James Cherti <contact <at> jamescherti.com>
> 
> Attached: v2 of this patch
> 
> This patch marks only the following characters as
> punctuation: !%^~:,
> 
> I removed . because it is commonly used in command names
> (e.g., mkfs.ext4).
> 
> (Excluding '.' not only covers the majority of command and
> function names but also prevents using ,!%^~: as
> symbol constituents, resulting in more accurate
> variable symbols.)

Should this backward-incompatible change be controlled by a user
variable?  I can easily imagine some user who'd come complaining about
this compromise.  Without a knob to get back previous behavior, we
will have no way of satisfying such users without reverting the
change.

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