From: "Daniel Shahaf" <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: "Zsh Users" <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Why is path not a -aUT type?
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2023 07:56:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34068e49-0dc8-4f8e-8152-46791e5f6e26@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bee9b466-9375-4809-a4e1-efff47d85428@app.fastmail.com>
Daniel Shahaf wrote on Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:01 +00:00:
> Zach Riggle wrote on Tue, 61 Apr 2022 11:16 +00:00:
>> It seems to me that having duplicate entries in $PATH / $path is a bit
>> silly, and makes some things hard to do.
>>
>> Is there any reason that, by default, we do not
>>
>> typeset -aUT PATH path
>>
>>
>> Automatically?
>
> Yes. $path is non-unique by default for interoperability with the OS
> zsh was created on.
To be clear, that was an April Fools' Day prank. See the rest of this thread
for serious answers.
Thanks to Matthew for reviewing a draft. (He was the first to respond to my
IRC request for reviewers.)
Daniel
P.S. If you wonder how I had time for /this/ of all things, the answer
is, I didn't. I did most of the drafting and reviewing months
ago, and sent this via at(1).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-02 7:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-31 11:16 Zach Riggle
2022-05-31 12:30 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2022-05-31 17:22 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-05-31 17:44 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2023-04-01 0:01 ` Daniel Shahaf
2023-04-02 7:56 ` Daniel Shahaf [this message]
2023-04-02 16:00 ` Ray Andrews
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