I put a bug report into an emacs group because the bash syntax highlighter failed to recognize functions whose names have dashes in them.
The maintainer came back with this: I can reproduce this behaviour, but is it really a bug? Aren't the names with '-' invalid? The Bash Reference Manual says: name A word consisting solely of letters, numbers, and underscores, and beginning with a letter or underscore. Names are used as shell variable and function names. Also referred to as an identifier. https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/bash/manual/bash.html I looked at the manual and I didn't see positive or negative acknowledgement that dashes can be used in function names. But it does work. Update to manual? name A word consisting solely of letters, numbers, and underscores, and beginning with a letter or underscore. Names are used as shell variables. Also referred to as an identifier. function name A word consisting solely of letters, numbers, underscores, dashes, and beginning with a letter or underscore. Function names are used to label shell functions. -- Matthew O. Persico
