bad coloring in shell script mode

bad coloring in shell script mode

[Joe Corneli]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2002-03-22 on raven, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  i386-debian-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=athena --without-gif'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: nil

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

This line

    grep "<<$SF>>" $HOME/.todo/$TODOLIST > $HOME/p

causes everything after it to be in Sh Heredoc Face....
well, everything until a similar line is encountered
later on in the code, then normal fontlock behaviour begins
again.

Specifically, the line

   grep -v "<\*>" $HOME/.todo/$TODOLIST | grep "<<.*>>" - > $HOME/b

turns font lock back on.

The intervening line

   sed -e "s/^\($SF:\)\(.*<<\)\(.*\)\(>>\)$/\3/"`

doesn't have any effect.

Note that this behaviour is not present in XEmacs 21.5.

Recent input:
RET C-s r a t p o i C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s 
ESC s C-x o C-s C-g ESC O B ESC O B C-s r e p o r t 
C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s ESC O D ESC x r e p o r t - e m 
a c s - b u g RET b a d SPC c o l o r i n g SPC i n 
C-x o C-x C-f C-g C-x C-f t o d o RET ESC x r e p TAB 
o TAB r TAB RET

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Re: bad coloring in shell script mode

[Dan Jacobson]

Joe> This line
Joe>     grep "<<$SF>>" $HOME/.todo/$TODOLIST > $HOME/p
Joe> causes everything after it to be in Sh Heredoc Face....

For me, the first line ruins everything after it too, so I had to add
one space, spoiling my Spartan image.
test "x$1" = x--help && { cat<<\EOF; exit;}
test "x$1" = x--help && { cat<<\EOF ; exit;}
By the way, are we sure the 'here document' should be specially
colored?  Often I do su proxy <<\EndofEverything for 90% of a script.
OK, and if you're gonna same-color the whole script, then remember to
make the $vars and `backquote commands` otherly colored, unless one
has used <<\ and not <<.
By the way, two wrongs make a right, so I can turn the different
colors back on in that 90% with
false && { cat<<\EOF; exit;}
colors off here
EOF
su ${wwwoffle_user?} <<\EOeverything
colors back on here, good.
Indeed, one can even comment that su line and it still works.