micro-editor / micro-editor/micro
shell syntax highlighting fails with quote character in herestring
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Description
works as expected without quotes
hs <<< sss
abc
sss
but it fails if heredoc contains an odd number
of unescaped quotes (single or double)
hs <<< sss
ab'c
sss
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Research direction
Reproduce the failure using the two herestring examples in the issue, then locate the shell syntax-highlighting entry point. Trace how an odd unescaped quote inside the herestring is classified; done means both examples receive correct highlighting without the quote changing the remaining herestring parsing.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- shell
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100