syntax highlighting does not end comment in #!/bin/sh file

[deep-42-thought]

I have a shell script, marked with #!/bin/sh, in which a ' inside a comment confuses geany's syntax parser and makes it believe this comment does not end. The minimal example I can come up with is:

#!/bin/sh
a=$(
  # '
  echo 'Yo'
)
echo 'not a comment!'

Note, that outside of $(...) the use of # ' is treated correctly.
This is with geany 1.32 (built on 2017-11-21 with GTK 2.24.31, GLib 2.54.0) on archlinux.

[elextr]

The highlighting is performed by the Scintilla editing widget Geany uses which is a separate project. Please report to their bugtracker so you can be directly linked to responses and queries. Please post a link to the bug here for tracking.

[b4n]

The bug here is actually that # is not recognized inside $(…), and thus that the quote is considered never closed. But yeah should be fixed in Scintilla.

[deep-42-thought]

ok, done: #1994

[lpaulsen93]

It seems this would also be solved by my changes submitted to Scintilla in https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/code/merge-requests/22.