> 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,

The first part of the puzzle is to fix the syntax-category of the `)` so
it's recognized as a "case-)" rather than a normal ("matched") paren.

The patch below seems to do the trick.


        Stefan