Previously, the keywords were a mess. They contained the shell’s
reserved words and some arbitrarily selected builtins. I generated
the word list using bash because it contains all POSIX builtins and
is common for scripting.
In variable assignments some characters that are allowed to be in
variables used to not be highlighted, e.g. hyphens. With this commit
all characters except whitespace are considered to be part of the
variable.
This commit allows using the <semicolon> expansion in commands, instead
of `\;`.
It makes commands look more elegant, and prevents new-comers from
falling into the trap of using <a-;> without escaping the semicolon.
This attempts to support a simple formatting and intentation style for
plain sh syntax (and other sh-compatible code which doesn't stray too
far from portable sh).
The complexity of sh syntax means that we have to be opinionated -
attempting to be more flexible would require extensive context
awareness, and would require something more akin to a proper
autoformatting tool or a language server.
The formatting style used here makes use of vertical whitespace as the
primary delimiter, so that code ends up looking like this:
if [ $foo = "bar" ]; then
thing1
else
thing2
fi
for i in foo bar baz; do
thing1
thing2
done
case "$foo" in
bar) thing1;;
baz)
thing1
thing2
;;
esac
Since the formatting style used is very opinionated the 'sh_auto_indent'
option can be used to disable auto-indentation, with the default set to
'no'.
