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To: zsh-users@zsh.org References: <939622201.802587.1628597522569@mail2.virginmedia.com> <1971762691.811348.1628613240923@mail2.virginmedia.com> From: Ray Andrews Message-id: <529da2fd-0718-847a-c939-63ce4d48b9ec@eastlink.ca> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 09:48:24 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.12.0 MIME-version: 1.0 In-reply-to: <1971762691.811348.1628613240923@mail2.virginmedia.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Content-language: en-US X-Seq: 26895 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: On 2021-08-10 9:34 a.m., Peter Stephenson wrote: > > Very very very very very roughly, "interactive" in this sense means it's > showing you prompts and bringing up a line editor to edit the command line. > Well that's the thing.  Thomas can be forgiven for being a bit unclear about what it all means.  The docs basically assume you already know.  But that's very roughly how I understand it -- no prompts if not interactive. > Being "non-interactive" doesn't mean you can't interact with the shell. > There's still probably a standard input and output. Just when I thought I understood it :-(  So 'non-interactive' might be interactive after all?  It would take some writing skill to really elucidate this.