Re: sh-script.el : don't colorize $(( 4 << 2 )) as here-document

[Thomas Gambier]

Hi,

Andreas Röhler wrote:
> seems you got me. :-)
> Thanks.
> Preceding whitespaces resp. tabs are permitted by "-" in "<<-", so it's not 
> possible to exclude it.
>
> Well, the only clean solution I see is based on a check if "<<" is inside
>
> a command like $(( 4 << 2 ))
>
> BTW, how it's called in english?
>
> Beside of writing such a check and include it into sh-script.el
> a quick and dirty solution might be
>
> (setq sh-here-doc-open-re   (concat "<<-?\\s-" sh-here-document-word))
>
> Then only customized `sh-here-document-word' will be
> accepted with some whitespace before, nothing else.
>
> Works here...
>
>
>   

It worked here except I had to change the variable name 
"sh-here-document-word" because it was used as the word to insert after 
typing <<. I will use this for now.

Thanks a lot.


Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > when I'm writing something like this in bash script value=$(( 4 << 2 )),
> > Emacs keep thinking it's the beginning of here-document and will colorize in
> > yellow all the code below this expression.
> >     
>
> Ever heard of M-x report-emacs-bug?
>
>   
You're right, I've just send a bug report using this function.

So I'm happy with Andreas' solution and hopefully it will be corrected 
in next version of sh-script.el

Regards.

Thomas.