The issue had been reported to the Emacs StackExchange group using thefollowing description. A commentator could replicate it.----------- -----------------------------------------------------------When using a multiple of the "tab-width" value for "sh-basic-offset", creating a function using the built-in command "C-c (" removes characters from the expected result. That being said, I can create a shell function by manually typing it. It is just this built-in command, which causes odd behavior. When "tab-width" and/or "sh-basic-offset" are not set inside the ".emacs" file or the latter is not a multiple of the former, it works as expected. Here are the tests I did:In the below examples I use "asdf" as the function name and the pipe character ("|") is the visualization of where point is located after I completed the built-in command. With either variables not defined or not a multiple of one another, the (default) result is:function asdf() { |} With both set to 4, the result is:function asdf() {}| With tab-width set to 4 and sh-basic-offset to 8, the result is:function asdf()}| With both set to 8, the result is:function asdf}| With both set to 16 (just for a test), the result is (semantically a rather amusing):fu}| Is this a bug or do I need to set another variable to a certain value for it to work? I at least tried the variables stated in this question, but they did not have any effect at all for this issue.-------------- --------------------------------------------------------Source: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/51324/23319 In GNU Emacs 26.2 (build 1, x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.8) of 2019-04-30 built on buildvm- 06.phx2.fedoraproject.orgWindowing system distributor 'Fedora Project', version 11.0.12005000Recent messages:Loading /usr/share/emacs/site- lisp/site-start.d/autoconf-init.el (source)...doneLoading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/desktop-entry-mode-init.el (source)...doneLoading time...doneLoading elec-pair...doneLoading display-line-numbers...doneLoading paren...doneFor information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. 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