bug#52496: syntax highlighting problem on emacs shell-script mode

[Yilkal Argaw]

Yes, I agree.  I think this is enough for now until a refactor becomes
necessary.

On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 12:46 PM Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>
> Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > So IIUC for here-documents anything is fair game except (1)
> > {single,double,back} quotes (2) metacharacters (3) backslashes and
> > comment openers (#); all of which can still be used if quoted or escaped
> > *on the opening line only*.
>
> Thanks.
>
> As far as I can see, sh-mode doesn't really try too hard to be correct
> here -- it accepts word constituents, but then adds back -/~._ which it
> has defined as punctuation in `sh-mode-syntax-table'.  So perhaps we
> should just continue doing that and add @, too, even though that's not
> very satisfactory.
>
> So I've now done that in Emacs 29.
>
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