Re: [Nano-devel] syntax highlight tweak for bash scripts

[David Lawrence Ramsey]

Benno Schulenberg wrote:

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> The highlighting example for Bourne shell scripts does not colour all
> special variables, such as $? and $@, correctly.  Attached patch fixes
> this.  It makes a small change to the comment colouring too, to
> prevent the $# variable from being recoloured.

Applied.  Thanks.

> Personally I split up the string colouring into
>   color brightyellow ""(\\.|[^"])*""
> before, and
>   color brightyellow "'(\\.|[^'])*'"
> after the brightred variable colouring, so that it shows which
> variables get evaluated and which not.  See the second patch.  This of
> course causes strings that contain a "#" to be miscoloured, but
> currently strings inside comments are miscoloured, so that's about
> even, I think.

Unfortunately, the new miscoloring looks weirder to me than the current
miscoloring, so I've left it the way it is for now.