From: JAMES R CUTLER <james.cutler@mac.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Fwd: _pick_variant
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 14:20:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31BCD67F-059D-4E60-9DB0-E27557368235@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cafc3aac-62c6-1479-8812-91faa7439a1b@eastlink.ca>
On 2020-11-12 10:40 a.m., Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
> and discovered the hard way that zsh supplies a completion function
> for a utility of the same name
1. The simplest technique for dealing with a flat namespace in any programming language, including shell, is to prefix local names. For example, my command scripts uses “my_” for prefixing where naming collisions may occur. I suppose I could have used “JRC_”.
2. “which” is your friend.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-12 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-13 17:41 _pick_variant Thomas Lauer
2020-11-12 18:35 ` _pick_variant Bart Schaefer
2020-11-12 18:40 ` _pick_variant Roman Perepelitsa
2020-11-12 19:07 ` _pick_variant Ray Andrews
2020-11-12 19:17 ` _pick_variant Roman Perepelitsa
2020-11-12 19:20 ` JAMES R CUTLER [this message]
2020-11-13 9:34 ` _pick_variant Thomas Lauer
2020-11-13 10:42 ` _pick_variant Roman Perepelitsa
2020-11-13 10:57 ` _pick_variant Thomas Lauer
2020-11-13 11:18 ` _pick_variant Roman Perepelitsa
2020-11-13 22:26 ` _pick_variant Bart Schaefer
2020-11-14 9:56 ` _pick_variant Thomas Lauer
2020-11-14 19:21 ` _pick_variant Bart Schaefer
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