On Mon, Aug 30, 2021, at 5:22 PM, Přemysl Šťastný wrote: > Will ksh93 version ever get to upstream?
I don't know what you mean by that. ksh is not "downstream" of bash; it is a separate project. Whether bash incorporates this feature or one like it is up to Chet, who hasn't yet chimed in. > This ugly 'bug' is here for decades and really irritates me > and many people, who ever used shell for larger scripting and > don't like to use tabs. I don't really have an opinion. To me it's just another shell scripting wart to get used to, and not even the ugliest one. I would just prefer that a potential implementation not diverge from prior art needlessly. -- vq