Re: Suggestion of enhancement by adding a hyphen to sh-imenu-generic-expression

[James Cherti]

Hello Eli,

Attached is the patch you requested for sh-script.el.

The patch enables the use of hyphens in Bash function names by adding a 
regular expression for Bash to `sh-imenu-generic-expression`.

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James Cherti
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On 2024-11-24 04:41, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 16:04:17 -0500
> > From: James Cherti <contact@jamescherti.com>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > While editing a Bash shell script today, I discovered that imenu does
> > not include functions with hyphens in their names.
> >
> > While it is true that sh does not allow hyphens in function names, Bash
> > does permit them.
> >
> > My suggestion is to add a hyphen '-' to the sh-imenu-generic-expression
> > (sh-script.el) regular expression to make imenu include these functions,
>
> Would you like to submit a patch along these lines?
>
> Thanks.

bash-imenu-hyphen.patch
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