bug#31609: 25.3; sh-mode is confused about bash extglobs in case patterns

[Phil Sainty]

If a workaround helps you, these variants are correctly indented:

case $foo in
    (@(bar|quux)) : do things;;
    (@(bar|quux)) {
        : do things
    };;
esac


On 2018-05-28 04:44, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> When using bash's extended globbing constructs such as @(...), +(...),
> !(...), *(...) in case patterns, sh-mode gets confused and indentation
>          no longer works properly.
>
> For example:
>
> case $foo in
>     @(bar|quux))
>                 <-- TAB brings the cursor here
>         <-- ...whereas I would have expected it to be here
> [...]
>
> The indentation continues to be off for the remainder of the file,
> i.e. after the ;; and terminating `esac'.
>
> This is a largish annoyance for me when working with bash-completion,
> which currently uses these constructs quite a bit in case patterns, and
> more is on the way.