Re: So clever it's stupid

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

Phil Carmody wrote:
> How do I turn off the utterly obnoxious behaviour of '<' in shell mode?
> (Emacs v.21.4.1)
> 
> <<<
> sh-maybe-here-document is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `sh-script'.
> (sh-maybe-here-document ARG)
> 
> Insert self.  Without prefix, following unquoted `<' inserts here document.
> The document is bounded by `sh-here-document-word'.
> 
> I give all my heredocs meaningful individual names, and certainly don't want 
> emacs inanely thinking that I want all the terminators called 'EOF'.
> 
> It's so completely brain-dead that if I try to type a command like
>   echo '<<< doing phase 2 >>>'
> I don't get past the second chevron before it's shat unwanted garbage
> in my file.
> 
> Similarly it doesn't seem to understand that people might want to use
> both expanded and non-expanded heredocs, or sometimes want leading
> tab removal, but at other times not want it. And as for herestrings,
> they're right out.
> 
> Magic '<', for me, must die. How do I ensure I never ever see that
> abomination again? (Unbind the key and make it self-insert in a 
> bunch of relevant hooks? Or is there just a variable I can set to 
> 'off' somehow?)

The former:

(add-hook 'sh-mode-hook (lambda () (local-unset-key "<")))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA