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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
	"Matthew Persico (BLOOMBERG/ 919 3RD A)"
	<mpersico5@bloomberg.net>
Cc: 21477@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21477: 24.4; Imenu - improper parse of shell function names
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 08:59:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmn8+9VWL3HuQ7NTLPV0mtAy7Q0B8uOvXmf0BxBfQMicTg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kp7zzh0.fsf@igel.home>

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> It's a POSIX extension, enforced in POSIX mode:
>
>   13. Function names must be valid shell 'name's.  That is, they may not
>      contain characters other than letters, digits, and underscores, and
>      may not start with a digit.  Declaring a function with an invalid
>      name causes a fatal syntax error in non-interactive shells.

Right.  Well, then adding syntax highlighting here would in a way
encourage people to write non-POSIX conformant shell code, which even if
it happens to work in Bash sounds like a bad idea.

So I'm leaning towards closing this bug report as wontfix.

Any other opinions?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas





  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-12 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-14 14:14 bug#21477: 24.4; Imenu - improper parse of shell function names Matthew Persico (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEX)
2020-08-12  4:15 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-12 13:51 ` Matthew Persico (BLOOMBERG/ 919 3RD A)
2020-08-12 14:08   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-12 14:54   ` Andreas Schwab
2020-08-12 15:59     ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-08-12 14:36 ` Matthew Persico (BLOOMBERG/ 919 3RD A)
2020-08-12 15:59   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-12 15:57 ` Matthew Persico (BLOOMBERG/ 919 3RD A)
2020-08-20 18:13 ` Matthew Persico (BLOOMBERG/ 919 3RD A)
2020-08-20 18:41   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-20 18:42 ` Matthew Persico (BLOOMBERG/ 919 3RD A)

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