On 8/11/20 11:45 AM, Andrew Neff wrote:
> Ah, I see the confusion.
>
> The issue you pointed out, "@Q breaks set -o nounset" refers to quote
> parameter expansion, as does the line in CHANGES-5.1, 1.q, which makes
> sense to call this a bug that was allowed in bash 4.4 and 5.0.
Not quite. The rep
I put a bug report into an emacs group because the bash syntax highlighter
failed to recognize functions whose names have dashes in them.
The maintainer came back with this:
I can reproduce this behaviour, but is it really a bug? Aren't the
names with '-' invalid?
The Bash Reference Manual says:
On 8/12/20 10:51 AM, Matthew Persico wrote:
> I put a bug report into an emacs group because the bash syntax highlighter
> failed to recognize functions whose names have dashes in them.
>
> The maintainer came back with this:
>
> I can reproduce this behaviour, but is it really a bug? Aren't the
On 8/11/20 11:59 AM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> This is different from every other shell, and also looks like it's contrary
> to the POSIX spec:
> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/fc.html#tag_20_44_05
>
> | When a range of commands is used, it shall not be an error to speci
On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 11:06 AM Eli Schwartz
wrote:
> On 8/12/20 10:51 AM, Matthew Persico wrote:
> > I put a bug report into an emacs group because the bash syntax
> highlighter
> > failed to recognize functions whose names have dashes in them.
> >
> > The maintainer came back with this:
> >
>
On 8/12/20 11:51 AM, Matthew Persico wrote:
> Thanks. I will take your word for it, as I cannot seem to find that text at
> https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/bash/manual/bash.html, unless
> that is not the canonical location for the manual.
The canonical location is surely the source code
On 8/12/20 12:01 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On 8/12/20 11:51 AM, Matthew Persico wrote:
>> Thanks. I will take your word for it, as I cannot seem to find that text at
>> https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/bash/manual/bash.html, unless
>> that is not the canonical location for the manual.
>
