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bug#3226: here-document syntax inference and completion is broken
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#3226: here-document syntax inference and completion is broken |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Oct 2019 21:38:11 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> A default emacs install will complete with "EOF\n\nEOF" (in a more
>> clever fashion so the rest of the line is undisturbed), and place the
>> cursor on the new blank line. This is incorrect behaviour, as it
>> breaks entry of BASH here-strings when the user's intent is
>> still ambiguous.
>
> Thanks for your report. Indeed, sh-mode does not know about
> here-strings at all. I guess waiting for "<<[^<]" is a good idea.
> Patches welcome for Emacs-23.2.
I've now made it look for a space after the << -- that feels more
natural than << and then some arbitrary character. And as far as I can
tell, all the shells handle
foo <<EOF
EOF
and
foo << EOF
EOF
identically.
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- bug#3226: here-document syntax inference and completion is broken,
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