headings in sh-mode

[lisa-asket]

From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: headings in sh-mode
Date: 02/07/2021 20:34:04 Europe/Paris

lisa-asket wrote:

> Then I did 
>
> * Heading
>
> ** Heading
>
> *** Heading
>
> **** Heading
>
> The last headings took effect, but they srcew up the srcipt
> because they are not used as comments.

>Of course, you must obey the shell language rules (syntax in
>this case), if you'd like it to work.



It was by default, I did not set them up.  Simply loaded a bash file,

called `M-x outline-minor-mode` and lines starting with `*` were

considered as headings.  This screws up shell scripts.  This problem

should be fixed so headings must start with `#` first.



>But honestly... you don't need a header hierarchy like this
>for a shell script, they should be simple and short (well, as
>short as possible, and long scripts aren't advanced, really,
>they are just long).



The header hierarchy functionality is available, so I do not see 

how one can disregard a such a problem, advising people not to

use it. 



I went to the doctor because my thumb hurts.  He told me not to use it !



>If you really want something like that, can't `org-mode' do
>little buttons under each of the ranked headings, and the
>script will pop up and maybe execute, even?

>I'm not an org-mode user myself, what you describe I recognize
>from HTML and LaTeX but those are about organizing
>_information_, not bunching together shell tools executing on
>top of each other, and to the side...

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