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bug #66437: shell syntax miscolors string with interposed escaped single quote

Submitter:	THN <thn>
Submitted:	Wed 13 Nov 2024 03:31:40 PM UTC
Severity:	2 - Minor	Status:	Cantfix
Assigned to:	None	Open/Closed:	Open

Wed 13 Nov 2024 06:13:00 PM UTC, comment #2:  I don't know regex, you'll have to find someone, sorry. THN	THN <thn>
Wed 13 Nov 2024 04:24:22 PM UTC, comment #1:  If you can construct a regex that will color your example correctly, then please post it here.  I do not know how. (Also, of course, the shell allows both types of quotes -- single and double -- so that it is easy to avoid having to escape any quote.  Also, a quote is not a hyphen.)	Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Wed 13 Nov 2024 03:31:40 PM UTC, original submission:   In a file with associated file type "text" (eg. bash script), the syntax highlighting of a string containing a hyphen (single quote) is incorrect. Example: in a script file containing the syntactically correct line echo 'It'\''s a boy' the (in my case yellow) highlighting of the echo string stops before the letter "s" while it should continue to the EOL. Regards thn	THN <thn>

 

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Date	Changed by	Updated Field	Previous Value	=>	Replaced by
2024-11-13	bens	Severity	3 - Normal		2 - Minor
		Status	None		Cantfix
		Summary	Syntax highlighting: string with embedded hyphen not correctly detected		shell syntax miscolors string with interposed escaped single quote

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