[OT] Emacs and zsh syntax

[OT] Emacs and zsh syntax

[Jesper Nygårds]

I find that (GNU) emacs' shell-script-mode doesn't fully understand
zsh syntax. Among other things, emacs considers everything following a
hash sign (#) a comment, which of course breaks when using globbing
flags etc. I guess I can live with the occasional wrong coloring, but
it's more annoying when it breaks indentation.

How are other people dealing with this? Are there any modifications
one can do to the emacs configuration, or any other workaround?

Re: [OT] Emacs and zsh syntax

[Moritz Bunkus]

Hey,

I'm experiencing similar issues, especially with zsh's short syntax
for conditionals (e.g. lines following "if [[ stuff ]] do_stuff" being
indented wrong). Unfortunately I don't have a solution; I just kind
of... manually indent the following line and hope the ones after that
will be indented correctly again. It's a pain, yes.

Kind regards,
mo

Re: [OT] Emacs and zsh syntax

[Vincent Lefevre]

Hi,

On 2012-04-16 12:56:35 +0200, Moritz Bunkus wrote:
> I'm experiencing similar issues, especially with zsh's short syntax
> for conditionals (e.g. lines following "if [[ stuff ]] do_stuff" being
> indented wrong).

and "then" after ]] is not highlighted. I had reported the following
bug in 2005:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=335712

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Re: [OT] Emacs and zsh syntax

[Bart Schaefer]

On Apr 16,  3:08pm, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
}
} I had reported the following bug in 2005:

Cynical jaundiced viewpoint:  Zsh is not a GNU project, and therefore it
isn't their priority to fix anything related to it.

Does zsh really even have a font-lock mode that is distinct from sh-mode?

Re: [OT] Emacs and zsh syntax

[Benjamin R. Haskell]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2012, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> On Apr 16,  3:08pm, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> }
> } I had reported the following bug in 2005:
> } http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=335712
>
> Cynical jaundiced viewpoint:  Zsh is not a GNU project, and therefore 
> it isn't their priority to fix anything related to it.

Optimistic viewpoint: The bug should have been reported upstream, since 
it's not a distribution-specific problem.  (From the report, sounds like 
it may have made its way upstream.)

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Best,
Ben

Re: [OT] Emacs and zsh syntax

[Stephane Chazelas]

2012-04-16 12:52:49 +0200, Jesper Nygårds:
> I find that (GNU) emacs' shell-script-mode doesn't fully understand
> zsh syntax. Among other things, emacs considers everything following a
> hash sign (#) a comment, which of course breaks when using globbing
> flags etc.

That's a bug even for other shells.

echo foo#bar

outputs foo#bar in every shell (but zsh with extendedglob which
is one of the reasons extendedglob is not on by default).

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