Re: sh-script.el and magic numbers

[Kevin Rodgers]

Luc Teirlinck wrote:

> I believe that defining a bunch of derived modes of sh-mode would
> correspond to a substantial rewrite of sh-script.el and, actually a
> radical change in style and philosophy.
>
> I do not believe it is necessary to go that far.


It may not be necessary to go that far to fix this particular bug, but it is the
right thing to do in the long term.

> What seems needed is
> fixing a concrete bug in sh-get-indent-info, maybe some similar not
> yet discovered bugs elsewhere in the indentation machinery (let us
> hope not), making sh-shell-file a permanent local, adding a couple of
> lines to the mode documentation and maybe make sh-mode add a small and
> simple function to find-file-hook.  These are all small local changes,
> whereas the change you propose would be a lot more radical.  Let us
> also not forget that in most, be it definitely not all, situations the
> implicit assumptions made by sh-script.el are actually satisfied.



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