On 22 Aug 2007, at 20:44, Alain O'Dea wrote:

For example if the first line of the script named "do_some_stuff" was

"#!/bin/env bash", then the file type would be a Bourne Shell script

file and Shell script (bash) syntax would be turned on.

The shell script grammar includes the following:

firstLineMatch = '^#!.*(bash|zsh|sh|tcsh)';

so this should work already.

Try this from Terminal:

echo '#!/bin/env bash' | mate