Re: shell-script-mode gets lost in small repro

[Johan Walles]

Additional info: After typing in the whole script, you may have to
type a space at the end of the "echo" line to trigger the
lost-getting.

2007/7/16, Johan Walles <address@hidden>:
> In GNU Emacs 23.0.0.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.11)
>  of 2007-07-06 on helios
> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70200000
> configured using `configure  '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--host'
> 'i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib'
> '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var'
> '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes'
> '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.0.0/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.0.0/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.0.0/leim'
> '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--enable-font-backend'
> '--with-xft' '--with-freetype' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu'
> 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CC=gcc' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN
> -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2''
>
> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: swedish
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
>   locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix
>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
>
> Major mode: Shell-script
>
> Minor modes in effect:
>   show-paren-mode: t
>   pc-selection-mode: t
>   global-auto-revert-mode: t
>   auto-revert-mode: t
>   delete-selection-mode: t
>   tooltip-mode: t
>   tool-bar-mode: t
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   global-auto-composition-mode: t
>   auto-composition-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>   transient-mark-mode: t
>
> Type the following in a buffer in shell-script-mode:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> while false ; do
>     echo "server $(hostname), $(date)" |
>     mail -s "Alert: Almost out of disk space $usep%" $ADMIN
> done
>
> Note that shell-script-mode gets lost at the "mail" line, thinking it
> is some kind of pre-formatted text.  Really obvious in font-lock-mode,
> or if you try to indent the "mail" line using TAB.
>
> Removing $(date) from the line before works around the problem.
>
>   Regards //Johan