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Sun, 2 Apr 2023 03:56:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface User-Agent: Cyrus-JMAP/3.9.0-alpha0-238-g746678b8b6-fm-20230329.001-g746678b8 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <34068e49-0dc8-4f8e-8152-46791e5f6e26@app.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2023 07:56:13 +0000 From: "Daniel Shahaf" To: "Zsh Users" Subject: Re: Why is path not a -aUT type? Content-Type: text/plain X-Seq: 29008 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: , List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: 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).