Bug#922423: initscripts: formatting of scripts

[tito]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:55:26 +0100 (CET)
Thorsten Glaser <tg at evolvis.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Mar 2025, tito wrote:
> 
> >Hi,  this breaks the visual matching of keywords and code blocks
> >making it harder to read, IMHO indentation has a point here:
> 
> Absolutely not: within a case‥esac block, nothing but patterns
> can be first-level elements, so the extra indentation is useless
> and just makes the code too wide.
> 
> bye,
> //mirabilos
hi,
in your case indentation case, bar, *, esac look as  homogeneous
elements which they are not:

case and esac are syntactic elements that match each other
and foo bar and * are the values which are compared.

Ciao,
Tito