RE: Syntax of "-" in shell-mode

[Drew Adams]

> Hi. What do people think about giving "-" a syntax of "word" in
> shell-mode? The rationale is that in this mode one is generally editing
> shell commands where "-" precedes commandline options, and strings such
> as "--help" generally represent a single semantic token.
> 
> More specifically if I have something like "xxx --yyy" with the point in
> the whitespace, and I invoke (transpose-words) I want the result to be
> "--yyy xxx" and not "yyy --xxx". The latter means something very
> different in a shell command.

Maybe not so simple.  A shell command can involve lots of stuff,
including arguments to commands that use their own syntax (think
`find').