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Bash 5.3 command substitution syntax parses as ERROR #301
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Revision: 56b54c6
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Minimal examples:
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo "${ echo foo; }"It currently parses as:
(program ; [0, 0] - [3, 0]
(comment) ; [0, 0] - [0, 19]
(command ; [2, 0] - [2, 21]
name: (command_name ; [2, 0] - [2, 4]
(word)) ; [2, 0] - [2, 4]
argument: (string ; [2, 5] - [2, 21]
(expansion ; [2, 6] - [2, 20]
(variable_name) ; [2, 9] - [2, 13]
(ERROR ; [2, 13] - [2, 18]
(word)))))) ; [2, 14] - [2, 17]
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo "${| REPLY=12345; }"It currently parses as:
(program ; [0, 0] - [3, 0]
(comment) ; [0, 0] - [0, 19]
(command ; [2, 0] - [2, 25]
name: (command_name ; [2, 0] - [2, 4]
(word)) ; [2, 0] - [2, 4]
argument: (string ; [2, 5] - [2, 25]
(ERROR ; [2, 6] - [2, 24]
(word))))) ; [2, 8] - [2, 23]
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo "${
echo "${
echo foo
}"
}"It currently parses as:
(program ; [0, 0] - [7, 0]
(comment) ; [0, 0] - [0, 19]
(command ; [2, 0] - [6, 2]
name: (command_name ; [2, 0] - [2, 4]
(word)) ; [2, 0] - [2, 4]
argument: (concatenation ; [2, 5] - [6, 2]
(string ; [2, 5] - [3, 8]
(ERROR ; [2, 6] - [3, 6]
(variable_name))) ; [3, 2] - [3, 6]
(expansion ; [3, 8] - [5, 3]
(variable_name) ; [4, 4] - [4, 8]
(ERROR ; [4, 9] - [4, 12]
(word))) ; [4, 9] - [4, 12]
(string ; [5, 3] - [6, 2]
(string_content))))) ; [6, 0] - [6, 1]
Reacted by Bill Trần, Ricardo Fernández Serrata and Lennard Hofmann
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Rudxain commentedon Jul 14, 2026
bump
The current highlights are really annoying (tested on Helix) because they "leak" to the entire buffer