Keywords in shell scripts are the wrong colour at the end of a case

[cD1rtX3]

Type: Bug

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[alexr00]

Can you share a complete, copy-pastable, example that I can use to repro the issue?

[cD1rtX3]

The actual issue is that they're the wrong colour if they have a semicolon after them inside of a case, but only some keywords, and it also screws up esac if there's only one.

case "$1" in
b)
    echo '[B]'
    return;;
yay)
    if true; then
        echo 'yay!!!'
    fi;
esac

[cD1rtX3]

Oh, and only inside of a case.

[alexr00]

Thanks! Copied to the upstream repo that we pull our shellscript grammar from: jeff-hykin/better-shell-syntax#114