Specify Shell Type

Although it is a great thing that the Shell language has been included in languages.yml, it can be difficult to find out what shell(s) a repository is meant for.

After all, each different type has their own set of commands that they support.

There is a caveat or two with this enhancement request, though.
A lot of the files are not labeled by the extension, but rather by the shebang. So I am thinking that there will have to be a way to check what type it is (unless the interpreter already accomplishes that for us).
The other concern is simply letting users know the specific type while also conveying that it is still a shell script. Maybe different names, but with the same color? Maybe even Shell - Bash or Shell - Zsh instead of Shell, and keep the same color that the Shell language already uses.

Besides the suggestion above, it could be done easily if there is a way to make some kind of customized name with a .gitattributes file like linguist-language.

[TerabyteTB]

I think sometimes Ruby uses shebangs too, but I'm not sure.
I also found a shebang.rb in the repository.

I did see the script, but it looks like it merely passes its findings on to other files.
What is required is the file(s) that interact with its findings.

[TerabyteTB]

oh, I only know a tiny bit about Ruby

No worries!
Fortunately, as we know, most languages have a similar syntax for us to get a gist of how they work.

Right now we only need to see how the detection is used. If it passes the shebang type as "'shell'", then it will respond accordingly. This is where we come in to find where the result(s) get processed.

[TerabyteTB]

I think it's here.

(Sorry if it's kind of obvious)

Thanks for that!

However we go about this, it looks like one would have to modify languages.yml.

[TerabyteTB]

Huh. Maybe someone can add a shell-type in the Shell section and put whatever in there into a variable of some sort, change it into a name, and display it after the Shell name.

Right.

[TerabyteTB]

I would really like to know how does grammers.yml work

It is a collection of files that define the coloring of words when they're uploaded to GitHub.

Were you thinking of something of it that relates to this issue?