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bug#18379: 24.3.93; Bash font lock: pretty inconsistent treatment of ``
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Andreas Schwab |
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bug#18379: 24.3.93; Bash font lock: pretty inconsistent treatment of `` and $() |
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Mon, 01 Sep 2014 17:03:32 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita@gmail.com> writes:
> The syntax table treats ` as an string quote character, so
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> `if [[ $x == x ]]; then echo x; else echo y fi`
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> $(if [[ $x == x ]]; then echo x; else echo y fi)
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> are highlighted in a very different way although they are semantically
> equivalent.
They have different quoting rules, with `...` using rules similar to
double quotes, whereas $(...) is a fully nesting construct.
Andreas.
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