Re: sh-script-mode

["Cai Qian" <caiqian@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On 5/29/06, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>     3) Highlight for quote string
>     Highlight for quota string is a mess, when embed double or single
>     quota inside quota, such as,
>
>     echo "$(echo "hello 'world'")"
>
> I think the syntax mechanism is not powerful enough to understand that.
> Sorry.
>

I think it is necessary here to change the behaviour of syntax
highlight of quote string. For example,

echo "$(ls "Hello World"*)"

Two quote strings are valid and necessary here to protect spaces as
well as newlines. In addition, I don't think it is too hard to support
it. When the first " char looking for the end of " char, it needs to
skip " char inside $(...)

Qian