Emacs 28.1: Bash Shell Script Indenting does not recognize if [....];then

Question

Since upgrade to Emacs 28.1, I have noted an annoy change in shell-script mode auto-formatting.

I would like to recover the old behavior

Before, if I entered

if [ "$x" = "" ];then
    export x=$y
fi

and then enter new line, the new line would align with the fi

if [ "$x" = "" ];then
    export x=$y
fi
cp fred ethel

Now it I do the same thing I get the new line indented

if [ "$x" = "" ];then
    export x=$y
fi
    cp fred ethel

The matching code also does not recognize that the fi is connected to the then statement.

This is not the case if I break the if into two lines:

if [ "$x" = "" ]
then
    export x=$y
fi
cp fred ethel

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I can reproduce this and it seems like a bug (please do report it), but you can work around it by putting a space after the semicolon (which I think almost everyone does, which would explain why this wasn't spotted by anyone).