Bugs in ERR and RETURN traps

I posted bug reports at https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?108738 and https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?108749 but there seems to be very little activity (or none at all?) on the issue tracker, so I figured it might be a good idea to post to the mailing list too. I'm using bash

Re: smart indented HERE docs

I agree something like this would be nice. Especially if it could handle spaces (in addition to tabs). My current solution to this problem is not particularly pretty or elegant: #!/bin/bash alias CAT_TO_END="I=\"\${I/*\$'\n'/}\" ; alias START=\"perl -ple 's/^\$I//' <<'\${I}END' ; unalias START\