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I use NetBeans daily for my development, and noticed that Netbeans - for quite some time now - provides facilities to edit UNIX shell scripts (Bash is the primary in my case.) Specifically nice highlighting for Bash shell scripts is provided. However NetBeans stops a tiny bit short from being great... Here is a quick example (Bash and Korn shell snippet): filesToPull=${files[@]##*/} NetBeans would think that the double pound sign (##) is a comment, however in this case it is not, and display the above line in wrong ways. "vim" - the ol' good vi editor - works much better/perfect here and I wonder if you guys have interest to improve Netbeans? Nice Bash shell scripting editor is not (definitely not) what I would consider a problem or defect or anything serious... I think you have real defects in NetBeans 6.5 it's just if you do something - it is worth doing it great :-) PS If you guys are already under stress fixing real stuff - just feel free to close this one. it's more like a wish from a spoiled user :-)
> I wonder if you guys have interest to improve Netbeans? Yes, we have. Have you? If so, have a look in languages.sh/src/org/netbeans/modules/languages/sh/sh.nbs. It's a text file, which describes how shell files should be handled. Among other things it also define what is a line comment. This is defined by a regular expression called 'TOKEN:line_comment:' (hmm, I hope so anyway). If you fix it you will step to the hall of the courageous. :-)
OK, I will try; can start next week.