On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 11:37:52AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 9/27/19 9:17 AM, Cleber Rosa wrote:
> > Due to not being able to find a reason to have shebangs on files that
> > are not executable.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <cr...@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >   tests/qemu-iotests/common.config  | 2 --
> >   tests/qemu-iotests/common.filter  | 2 --
> >   tests/qemu-iotests/common.nbd     | 1 -
> >   tests/qemu-iotests/common.pattern | 2 --
> >   tests/qemu-iotests/common.qemu    | 2 --
> >   tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc      | 2 --
> >   tests/qemu-iotests/common.tls     | 2 --
> >   7 files changed, 13 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> Loss of the shebang changes the mode in which emacs opens the files (from
> Shell-script[bash] to Conf[space] in my case).  I agree that a #! comment is
> not appropriate for a file that is not executable as a standalone file, but
> it becomes harder to edit the file correctly unless we replace it with some
> other way of letting editors realize that the contents of each file is still
> meant to be consumed by bash.
> 
> Something like this would work:
> 
> # hey emacs, this file will be sourced by bash: -*- sh -*-
>

Yes, good point.  Will send that on a v2.

- Cleber.

> -- 
> Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
> Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3226
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