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>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Poole <nospam@yahoo.com> writes:
    Brian> 
    Brian> Is there a major mode for bash shell scripts?
    Brian> If not what is the best way to ensure good indentation in bash shell
    Brian> scripts?

There's sh-script.el. You can use that for many different shells. Newer
versions also support indentation (not as fancy as c-mode or cperl though).
Didn't like the default indentation though, cause it looked like:

if [ ... ]
    then
    ...
fi

for ...
  do
  ...
done


I had to tweak a few variables to change it to e.g.

if [ ... ]
then
    ...
fi

for ...
do
    ...
done


Klaus

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