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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita@gmail.com>
Cc: occitan@esperanto.org, 18379@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18379: 24.3.93; Bash font lock: pretty inconsistent treatment of `` and $()
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 17:03:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mvmoauzqt6j.fsf@hawking.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bnqz1l3g.fsf@gmail.com> (Carlos Pita's message of "Mon, 01 Sep 2014 11:17:23 -0300")

Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita@gmail.com> writes:

> The syntax table treats ` as an string quote character, so
>
> `if [[ $x == x ]]; then echo x; else echo y fi`
>
> $(if [[ $x == x ]]; then echo x; else echo y fi)
>
> are highlighted in a very different way although they are semantically
> equivalent.

They have different quoting rules, with `...` using rules similar to
double quotes, whereas $(...) is a fully nesting construct.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-01 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-01 14:17 bug#18379: 24.3.93; Bash font lock: pretty inconsistent treatment of `` and $() Carlos Pita
2014-09-01 15:03 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.8037.1409583857.1147.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-01 19:27   ` Carlos Pita
2014-09-03  0:23 ` Stefan Monnier

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