syntax highlighting for shell is broken since 4.8.24 -rc1

[wwp]

since 4.8.24-rc1 (4.8.23-149-g06bf088bc), the syntax highlighting of shell scripts in mcedit misbehaves around matches of "function blabla()" inside literal quotes. It applies syntax highlighting as if it was function definition in normal conditions (out of literal quotes), breaking the colouring of whatever follows.

The following sample shows the issue:
#!/bin/sh

function foo()
{

echo "normal color highlighting"
echo "function bar() abnormal color highlighting"

}