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Bash does not have a multi-line comment syntax, which makes multiple # comment lines clutter up the navigator in Espresso rapidly, to the point of rendering it useless in heavily commented code (point in case: license sections). Would it be possible to tweak the bash sugar to tokenize multiple consecutive comment lines as one comment block?

Not sure which sugar causes the problem, so I am opening an issue on both: PHP code completion (form the official PHP sugar at http://github.com/derekr/php.sugar/tree) is leaking into bash scope (and only into this).

The BASH sugar was causing Espresso to crash. I sent an error report to Macrabbit and here is the response:

The Bash.sugar conflicts with the bundled TEA for Espresso.sugar (the two use two different methods for leveraging Python that are incompatible). Currently, the only option is to uninstall one or the other. Future updates to TEA will remove this incompatibility.

Folding a function or command block hides all of the block, making folding of limited use as the content vanishes entirely from sight. Keeping the keyword part visible (i.e. function foo ... or if [-n "$0"] ..., as the PHP sugar does) would improve the usability of code folding.

The parser misses case block ends. esac is not caught as a keyword, block highlighting and navigator indentation indicate the block is parsed as if continuing until the script's end. Syntax inspector reveals a spurious container.block.case-clause is found after the last real clause. [OT: otherwise great sugar, love it].

Unlike with functions, where it displays the function name, the navigator only displays a generic {...} for command blocks (if, case, while etc.). Displaying the clause itself (i.e. if {...}) would ease navigation; better even if the condition was displayed too (i.e. if: -n "$0").