Incorrect syntax highlighting of Bash here-strings #3648
Description
What steps will reproduce the bug?
The following Bash program:
cat <<A; cat <<B; cat <<C
String A
A
String B
B
String C
CWhat happens?
is incorrectly highlighted as
What did you expect to happen instead?
because Bat thinks the here-strings are ordered C, B, A, but they are in fact ordered A, B, C
How did you install bat?
nixpkgs cda48547b432e8d3b18b4180ba07473762ec8558
bat version and environment
Software version
bat 0.26.1
Operating system
- OS: Linux (NixOS 26.05)
- Kernel: 6.19.8
Command-line
/home/anselmschueler/.nix-profile/bin/bat --language bash --diagnostic Environment variables
BAT_CACHE_PATH=<not set>
BAT_CONFIG_PATH=<not set>
BAT_OPTS=<not set>
BAT_PAGER=<not set>
BAT_PAGING=<not set>
BAT_STYLE=<not set>
BAT_TABS=<not set>
BAT_THEME=<not set>
COLORTERM=truecolor
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_ALL=<not set>
LESS=<not set>
MANPAGER=<not set>
NO_COLOR=<not set>
PAGER=less
SHELL=/run/current-system/sw/bin/fish
TERM=xterm-256color
XDG_CACHE_HOME=<not set>
XDG_CONFIG_HOME=<not set>System Config file
Could not read contents of '/etc/bat/config': No such file or directory (os error 2).
Config file
--style=numbers,changes,rule,snip
Custom assets metadata
bat_version: 0.26.1
creation_time:
secs_since_epoch: 1774054094
nanos_since_epoch: 983655630
Custom assets
- metadata.yaml, 97 bytes
- syntaxes.bin, 1012454 bytes
- themes.bin, 58318 bytes
Compile time information
- Profile: release
- Target triple: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
- Family: unix
- OS: linux
- Architecture: x86_64
- Pointer width: 64
- Endian: little
- CPU features: fxsr,sse,sse2
- Host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Less version
> less --version
less 691 (PCRE2 regular expressions)
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