tags 24848 + patch
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<richard.wiseman@bt.com> writes:

> Anyway, to help get to the bottom of this, I disabled sh-indentation
> and tried your steps around editing smie-config and M-x normal-mode
> and I got the same result as you: it worked.
>
> So as you indicated, it appears to be that smie-config isn't being loaded (properly) when Emacs starts.
>
> I await your next inspiration! :-)

Okay, the patch below fixes the loading for me.  I also added a mention
of `smie-config-guess' in `sh-learn-buffer-indent's docstring so that it
should be possible to figure how to save config rules by reading
docstrings rather than hunting in the source code.