[வியாழன் ஜூன் 02, 2022] Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> mksh and OpenBSD's ksh support an alternative case syntax for historical
>> reasons [1],
>>
>>     case $i {
>>     *pattern) do ;;
>>     *pattern2) do2 ;;
>>     }
>>
>> Currently, sh-mode cannot handle this and the easy way out of writing a
>> semicolon after $i is out since,
>>
>>    % case "foo"; { *o) echo 1;; }
>>    /bin/mksh: syntax error: unexpected ';'
>>
>> I came with the attached patch after a bit of trial and error but I'm
>> not sure if it is the right way to do it.
>
> I think that might make sense, but perhaps Stefan has some comments here
> (added to the CCs).

To no one's surprise, the patch is not the right approach.  IIUC, when I
use braces, *pattern) thingies are not recognised as "case-)" anymore so
sh-indent-for-case-label does not get applied.  I tried a bit more but I
only got it to respect the first line but still it is definitely not the
right approach,