From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <9a283ebf599567b1c01c7e585b037626@quanstro.net> To: 9fans@9fans.net From: erik quanstrom Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:09:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] fn oddity with acme Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7257b5da-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >> >> Ah thanks, I would have never thought of using builtin in that case, I >> thought that the word following builtin had to be an rc built-in >> command. > > I doubt that "builtin acme" was a planned feature of rc, > though it's a neat trick. If you want to be clearer, you > could write /bin/acme. on unix, this often wouldn't work since acme isn't usually in /bin. perhaps this is my particular symptom of unix brain damage but, regardless of name, builtin just skips shell functions in its lookup so its more than just a trick. - erik